Police Arrest Mickey, Minnie Mouse

A Redondo Beach man was among the four protesters arrested at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank on Wednesday morning after they chained themselves to the front gates and put up a banner reading "Disney: Destroying Indonesia's Rainforests," police said.

Redondo Beach resident Christopher Toomey, 52; San Francisco resident Jennifer Binstock, 29; Irvine resident Blake Hodges, 26; and Los Angeles resident Alexis Soto, 27, were booked into jail on suspicion of trespassing, Burbank police Sgt. Sean Kelley said.

The four, some of whom were dressed as Disney characters at the protest, were all members of the Rainforest Action Network. RAN members are unhappy with Disney's use of paper products in children's books that supposedly come from endangered rain forests in Indonesia, according to the organization's website.

The demonstration was "nothing more than a publicity stunt," said Disney spokeswoman Michelle Bergman. She told City News Service that Disney officials met with RAN members last week and told them the company, per a directive in a 2010 corporate document, is dedicated to using paper products from renewable sources.

Note: An earlier version of this story stated that Alexia Dickason was one of the four arrested. It should have been Alexis Soto. Though her middle name is Dickason, her legal last name is Soto.

City News Service contributed to this report.