| Five to Ten Years with Brother A. West [message #246007] |
Do, 06 April 2006 18:13 |
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One-time kid show artist arrested in SoCal child porn case
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
(04-05) 12:17 PDT Sierra Madre, Calif. (AP) --
An award-winning children's television artist was arrested for alleged
possession and production of child pornography.
Andrew West Reid Jr., 52, known professionally as AWest, had
pornographic images of children on his computer and digital cameras
seized from his Sierra Madre home, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said
Tuesday.
Reid, who was arrested Tuesday while visiting someone in San Dimas, was
also arrested in January by Pasadena police and charged with molesting
a child, Eimiller said.
After an investigation in that case by the FBI and Pasadena police,
Reid was arrested by federal agents on the child porn charges, Eimiller
said.
Eimiller said Reid has worked extensively in the record industry and
last worked in production design and art direction for children's
television programming. Reid worked four years, until 2000, as the
city's film coordinator.
"He kind of popped in on the scene, he was the film guy to go to,"
former Mayor Doug Hayes said. "I didn't know him that well. He was the
film guy, that's all people knew him as."
AWest was an art director on the PBS television show "Jay-Jay the Jet
Plane," according to the www.pbskids.com Web site. Reid won two Cable
Ace awards in the category of Best Art Direction in a Comedy, Musical
or Series for Shelley Duvall's "Rock 'n Roll Mother Goose" and for
"Adventures in Wonderland," both on the Disney Channel, the Web site
said.
AWest earned five platinum albums for his art direction and, according
to the PBS Web site, lists Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan,
Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac among his clients.
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| Re: Five to Ten Years with Brother A. West [message #246063 ] |
So, 09 April 2006 21:46 |
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Biffy the Elephant Shrew wrote:
> An award-winning children's television artist was arrested for alleged
> possession and production of child pornography.
Still acting like a man of the cloth after all these years...
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