Movie Pirates Busted For Recording 'Fate Of The Furious': Police

LINTHICUM, MD — The latest installment in the Vin Diesel franchise "The Fate of the Furious" set a record for the biggest global opening of a movie ever, with just over half a billion dollars. But two Baltimore-area men allegedly caught illegally recording the action flick face criminal charges.

Anne Arundel County Police say that Friday night their officers were called to the Hoyts Movie Theater, 1591 W. Nursery Road in Linthicum, for a report of video piracy. An investigator from the Motion Picture Association of America told police he had been watching two known piracy suspects and saw them enter the movie theater. He claimed the pair were watching and illegally recording an early release of "Fate of the Furious."

Officers located the suspects in the theater and detained them after both men were reportedly found to be wearing recording harnesses under their shirts that were recording. Both suspects were arrested and taken to the Northern District police station, where they were processed and charged. Their illegal recording equipment and harnesses were seized as evidence.

Suspects Troy Montgomery Cornish, 38, of the 550o block of Hamlet Avenue in Baltimore, and Floyd Lee Buchanan, 35, of the 2900 block of Dundalk Avenue in Dundalk were charged in the case.

By Monday the movie was the biggest global opening in movie history, with the eighth installment raking in $532 million at the box office around the world in its first weekend, according to CNN.

»Photos of Troy Cornish and Floyd Buchanan, courtesy of Anne Arundel County Police