Store owner arrested on marijuana charges

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A Myrtle Beach shop owner remains in business despite charges he made and sold counterfeit DVD movies and kept marijuana and drug paraphernalia at his business on Eighth Avenue North.

Gary Finkenbiner, 48, of Conway, who operates Kilgor Trouts Music & More, 512 Eighth Ave. N., was arrested Thursday after Myrtle Beach police searched the store with a warrant, according to an incident report posted Friday.

Police got the search warrant after an undercover officer bought five DVDs from Kilgor Trouts Wednesday for $20 that "had clearly been transferred from another medium to the discs," the report reads.

Police found two glass bongs with a green, leafy substance on a counter in Finkenbiner's back office, an ashtray with more residue and a baggie with seven grams of marijuana in it, according to the report. They also confiscated his computer, software, copiers, disks and blank CDs, the report said.

Police booked Finkenbiner into the Myrtle Beach jail and formally charged him Friday with illegal distribution of recordings, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show.

He's free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond set Friday in Myrtle Beach Municipal Court and has another appearance scheduled there at 10 a.m. Jan. 23 and an initial appearance in general sessions court at Horry County Courthouse in Conway at 1 p.m. Feb. 29, according to court records.

Finkenbiner, whose shop buys, sells and trades used music and movies, on Friday said "it's harassment" and declined further comment.

"I'm under orders from my attorney not to say anything," he said.

He would not say who his attorney is and court records do not have a lawyer listed for Finkenbiner.

Finkenbiner faces up to a $250,000 fine and five years behind bars if convicted of felony illegal distribution of recordings, the most serious of the three charges.

Contact JONATHAN TRESSLER at 444-1723 or jtressler@thesunnews.com.

A Myrtle Beach shop owner remains in business despite charges he made and sold counterfeit DVD movies and kept marijuana and drug paraphernalia at his business on Eighth Avenue North.

Gary Finkenbiner, 48, of Conway, who operates Kilgor Trouts Music & More, 512 Eighth Ave. N., was arrested Thursday after Myrtle Beach police searched the store with a warrant, according to an incident report posted Friday.

Police got the search warrant after an undercover officer bought five DVDs from Kilgor Trouts Wednesday for $20 that "had clearly been transferred from another medium to the discs," the report reads.

Police found two glass bongs with a green, leafy substance on a counter in Finkenbiner's back office, an ashtray with more residue and a baggie with seven grams of marijuana in it, according to the report. They also confiscated his computer, software, copiers, disks and blank CDs, the report said.

Police booked Finkenbiner into the Myrtle Beach jail and formally charged him Friday with illegal distribution of recordings, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show.

He's free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond set Friday in Myrtle Beach Municipal Court and has another appearance scheduled there at 10 a.m. Jan. 23 and an initial appearance in general sessions court at Horry County Courthouse in Conway at 1 p.m. Feb. 29, according to court records.

Finkenbiner, whose shop buys, sells and trades used music and movies, on Friday said "it's harassment" and declined further comment.

"I'm under orders from my attorney not to say anything," he said.

He would not say who his attorney is and court records do not have a lawyer listed for Finkenbiner.

Finkenbiner faces up to a $250,000 fine and five years behind bars if convicted of felony illegal distribution of recordings, the most serious of the three charges.

Contact JONATHAN TRESSLER at 444-1723 or jtressler@thesunnews.com.