3rd man charged in Web porn ring
Chrissy Cresswell
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
A third suspect was arrested Monday in a multimillion-dollar Internet pornography operation that authorities say was based in Pensacola.
Andrew Kevin Craft, 38, identified by investigators as the general manager of the Web site on which locally produced films were shown, was taken into custody at his home in the 6500 block of Memphis Avenue in Pensacola.
Like the two suspects arrested Friday, Craft was booked on a charge of racketeering -- conducting a criminal enterprise by engaging in prostitution and the manufacture and sale of obscene material.
Escambia County Sheriff Ron McNesby and State Attorney Bill Eddins on Saturday announced a months-long investigation into Global Technology Productions, which did business as Ray Guhn Productions.
The business revolved around a Web site with some 5,000 subscribers who could view films featuring group sex for $30 a month, according to an affidavit.
The films were made at several homes in Pensacola and Pace, at five hotels in Escambia County, along Interstate 10 and Interstate 110, in wooded areas and in other public places, said Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar, who led the investigation.
Edgar estimated that about 100 local men and women participated in the films. He would not identify any of those people or say how the film- makers located them.
The two men arrested Friday were:
? Web site owner Clinton Raymond McCowen, 45, also known as Ray Guhn, who resides in the 1900 block of Rue La Fontaine in Navarre.
? Producer and Web site technician Kevin Patrick Stevens, 36, of the 9700 block of Fowler Avenue in Pensacola.
The affidavit says a confidential informant told investigators that Craft solicited her to make movies for Ray Guhn Productions.
In addition, the affidavit says the informant also said she was paid to have sex with Craft, McCowen and another associate during "private parties'' at which they would determine whether women would be good performers.
The informant reported making as much as $1,000 for a movie.
Another confidential source told investigators that Craft, known to her as Jim, was responsible for recruiting models, finding locations for shoots, making the movies and paying the models, the affidavit says.
Craft was in the Escambia County Jail on Monday evening under $75,000 bond. McCowen and Stevens bonded out Saturday.
Edgar said more arrests are expected in "the next several days or several weeks.'
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