A West Virginia couple running an adult Website called girlspooping.com - yes, children, it deals with precisely what the domain name suggests - has been arrested on obscenity charges related to video and DVD sales, after the U.S. Postal Service got tipped off and actually pulled off a full-tilt investigation of the couple's videos. .
Michael and Sharon Corbett sold thousands of copies of such titles as Outdoor Pooping Paradise and Po Po Club #2, according to a sworn affidavit from postal inspector Thomas Svitek, obtained by The Smoking Gun. To say the Corbetts' business involved imagery of women defecating and urinating - "often depicted sexually" and in public as well as in private, and often as not using Webcams inside toilets - would probably be more than enough.
The affidavit said the Corbetts sold $70,000 worth of such videos and DVDs in one three-month period, often moving 30 titles a day by mail order - which is how the feds got into the act in the first place. The Website was registered out of a Highlands Ranch, Colorado address in the couple's name, according to the document, and the couple forwarded their West Virginia mail to that address over a three month period including January, when federal investigators were first tipped off to the Website.
Svitek wrote that he reviewed the site January 4, and discovered 53 videos for sale with short descriptions and a warning on check notation and disguising the buyers' addresses: All checks or money orders must be made payable to MJC. Do not write any embarrassing memos on your check (anything adult in nature, or the full video titles). If you are concerned about Customs or privacy issues in your country, we can disguise your items to look like a business video to pass it through the strictest of Customs agencies.
The investigator traced the Corbetts by way of a local postal carrier, bought three of their videos from their Website for $47.50 total, and received the package six days later. He also received a similar package from a postal inspector in Kentucky before months end. He watched practically all the tapes in all the packages in January and February. In late February, a postal inspector contacted Corbett posing as an Internet service provider worker, getting enough information to trace the Corbetts' bank accounts and payment services.
A judge swore out a warrant for the Corbetts' arrest on March 25.
