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True Teen Babes Case Implodes

By AAN Staff
august 18, 2003  09:57 am
True Teen Babes Case Implodes
When police raided the Denver offices of trueteenbabes.com last spring, a media circus ensued. The Arapahoe County sheriff went on TV to announce that officers had busted "perhaps the largest pornography ring in Colorado history." Hundreds of thousands of pictures of underage girls had been confiscated, investigators said, and the case could have "national and international implications." The chief suspect, James Grady, was charged with an astounding 886 criminal charges. But the media didn't have much to say a year later, when the case against Grady -- who turned out to know the law and the realities of Web commerce a lot better than the cops who busted him -- fell spectacularly apart. Westword staff writer Eric Dexheimer reveals that some of the same reporters who trumpeted news of Grady's arrest also played a key role in getting him busted in the first place.
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