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2 BOOKED IN LEAK OF CRIME PHOTOS.


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A photo lab employee and a former sheriff's deputy were arrested Wednesday on charges of leaking the JonBenet Ramsey crime scene photos that were published in a supermarket tabloid Supermarket tabloids are national weekly magazines printed on newsprint in tabloid format, specializing in celebrity news, gossip, astrology, and bizarre (some would say apocryphal) stories about ordinary people. .

Lawrence Shawn Smith, a processor with Photo Craft Laboratories, which routinely handled coroner's office photos, and former deputy Brett Allen
For the Australian Football League official, see Brett Allen (umpire).


Brett Allen born in Hertfordshire, is a British Television Presenter, Actor and Comedian.
 Sawyer sold the photos to The Globe for $5,500, said Boulder County Sheriff George Epp.

The arrest warrant says The Globe approached Sawyer, who now works as a private investigator, about finding crime scene photos and Sawyer approached Smith. Epp said Smith received only $200 from the deal.

Smith, 36, was charged with theft, tampering with physical evidence, obstructing government operations This article aims to describe the financial expenditure associated with the operations and processes of world governments of all levels. Size of economic footprint

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 and false reporting. Sawyer, 38, who was a Boulder County deputy in 1980-81, was charged with obstructing government operations. Both were booked and released.

A remorseful re·morse·ful  
adj.
Marked by or filled with remorse.



re·morseful·ly adv.
 Sawyer said in an interview Wednesday with KCNC-TV that when he agreed to obtain the photos for The Globe, he did not think the tabloid would publish them, but would turn them over to experts for analysis. Sawyer said it took him just four hours to obtain the photos and deliver them to The Globe.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jan 16, 1997
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