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Juvenile division. A steady stream of illicit material is targeting local teenagers. Its up to Joe Friday to put a stop to it.
Reporting to a basement locker room in a local high school, Joe and Ed find a couple of joke books in Steve’s locker. What’s wrong with joke books? Why bother Steve, when all the other kids have them? Lets just say they don’t only have jokes in them, but lewd pictures, and Steve is the dealer to all the other kids. The next problem is for Joe to find Steve’s source, and stop it.
Steve tells about a couple of adults who have invited him, and his girlfriend to adult parties. The 17 year old gives full descriptions of the men, and their operation. before the cops pick up Charlie, he gets away. Taking a policewoman with them, the cops go to interview the girls involved. They tell how they expected help in getting modeling jobs.
Parents of the teens are brought into the loop, and in Joe’s voiceover, they are described as being cooperative, and admit their mistakes in not supervising their kids well enough. The cops catch up to Charlie. In his Westside studio, once a prominent studio, but is now in disrepair, the “has been” producer has some explaining to do over those joke books found in his car.
Though he tries to throw his old movie mogul weight around, the cops are not impressed. What has made him move from making fine pictures, to preying on teenagers?
