Newport News police charge man with possession of counterfeit DVDs

A 27-year-old Newport News man was arrested and charged Sunday after police say he was in possession of counterfeit DVDs. William T. Cofield was charged with selling a record without the owner’s consent, having a record with no manufacturers name on it and trespassing, according to Newport News City Jail records. At about 11 a.m. Sunday, a police officer sitting in an unmarked car saw a man pull out a stack of plain white covered DVDS for two people in the 2300 block of Jefferson Avenue, according to a Newport News Police Department news release.