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Bootleg DVDs, CDs found in traffic stop

The Force wasn't with Charles Wade Tuesday.
State police charged the 35-year-old Monticello man after, police said, they found scores of bootleg music CDs and movies, including the latest installment in the "Star Wars" saga, "Episode III ? Revenge of the Sith," which is playing in theaters.
Police said Wade had 130 bootleg DVDs of such hits as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "The Longest Yard," "The Honeymooners," and "Batman Begins," which opened in theaters just a week ago.
State police in Monroe received a cellular 911 call about an erratic driver on Route 17. Troopers Joe Mitchell and Dan Smith stopped a 2000 GMC Jimmy that matched a description of the erratic car, police said. Wade was driving.
The troopers found, in addition to the movies, nearly three dozen bootleg music CDs, mostly rap and hip-hop recordings, state police said.
Wade was arrested and charged with first-degree manufacturing or sale of an unauthorized recording of a performance, first-degree failure to disclose the origin of a recording, both felonies; and failure to use a designated lane, a traffic violation, police said.
He was sent to Orange County Jail, where he was being held in lieu of $3,500 cash bail.

< first-degree failure to disclose the origin of a recording... I guess telling the cops anything they want to know trumps the first and fifth ammendments. >

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