Reader: Phillip Greaves for sheriff!

Phillip Ray Greaves II, the 47-year-old Pueblo author of The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct, sent a copy to the wrong person: a Florida sheriff's deputy, a sale that will have him in a Florida court today on charges of distributing obscene material...

By Patricia Calhoun

December 22, 2010

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Phillip Ray Greaves II, the 47-year-old Pueblo author of The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct, sent a copy to the wrong person: a Florida sheriff's deputy, a sale that will have him in a Florida court today on charges of distributing obscene material.

Reports of the bust prompted this comment from solar satellite:

Polk County would do better to make Greaves Sheriff. The place is in a time-warp, lost sometime between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Era. The influx of new blood (of stray Disneyworld tourists) seems not to have mitigated the kind of severe inbreeding of which Judd is an excrescence.

Read more about badly behaving Coloradans -- even if the charges come out of Florida -- in our Colorado Crimes archive.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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