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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Bootlegger: I didn’t think selling fake discs was illegal
Around 9 p.m., Jan. 12, a Dayton police officer pulled up to a well-known spot for bootleg DVD and CD sales to find a man advertising his business with a milk crate full of counterfeit product on top of his car.
When the officer asked the man what he was doing he claimed he had permission from the owner of the liquor store in whose lot he was parked to sell his bootleg movies and music.
Once he was placed under arrest he told the officer that he didn’t think selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs and trademark counterfeiting was something he could get in trouble for. He said he’d been making his living that way for a while.
He begged the officer to let him go with a warning, but a background check in the police system revealed he’d been trespassed off a North Main Street property in 2005 for a same offense.
The 31-year-old man was taken to Montgomery County Jail on possible charges of criminal simulation and trademark counterfeiting. Once at the jail, a small baggie of marijuana was found in the man’s sock, adding misdemeanor drug possession to his possible charge list.
TweetLack of sprinkle doughnuts sparks confrontation
Just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, police pulled up to the Tim Horton’s on Patterson Road. Contrary to the stereotype, they were not there to eat.
They had been called after a customer confronted an employee over the restaurant’s lack of sprinkle doughnuts.
The employee told police a customer came to the drive-thru and became enraged when told there were no sprinkle doughnuts currently available. The driver, later identified as a 21-year-old man, pulled up to the drive-thru window and began cursing at the employee, according to the employee. The driver’s passenger — his 21-year-old female roommate — also joined the dressing down, according to the employee.
As some point, the driver entered the doughnut shop, grabbed the headset off the employee’s head and threw it across the restaurant. In so doing, the employee said the driver pulled his hair, causing pain.
The driver then left. Some 30 minutes later, a man identified as the driver’s brother came to the Tim Horton’s and threatened to beat the employee, according to the police report.
Police left Tim Horton’s and went to the driver’s home. The driver admitted an altercation with the employee, who, he said, twice called him a derogatory name. The driver said he did remove the employee’s headset, but denied pulling the employee’s hair.
The driver was issued a summons for misdemeanor assault and menacing.
When officers returned to the Tim Horton’s later in the morning, the manager informed them the surveillance system “was messed up,” and he had no video for them.
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