Video Emerges In Firehouse Strip Show Case
By Stephen Dean
POSTED: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
UPDATED: 6:15 pm CDT April 1,
2008
RICHMOND, Texas -- New video evidence has emerged in the case of a suburban Houston firehouse striptease act, Local 2 Investigates reported Tuesday.
The six-second video clip, apparently recorded on a cell phone, was sent to Local 2 Investigates by a person who said he was trying to prove the "late night photo shoot" really did occur.
The sender requested anonymity, and he wrote that the video clip proves the photos that Local 2 Investigates found circulating on the Internet were, "not fake or Photoshopped" as the Pecan Grove Volunteer Fire Chief had suggested.
Chief Paul LeDoux posted a message on the fire department's
Web site last week, telling the community that pays for his department that the snapshots reported last week by Local 2 Investigates may have been created using the picture editing software, Photoshop.
In the video clip that was sent to Local 2 Investigates on Tuesday morning, the woman is posing with her breasts exposed and then she is heard saying, "It didn't flash." She is then heard laughing. No other voices are heard in the recording.
Chief LeDoux has said he will not answer questions about the potential wrongdoing by on-duty firefighters until the sheriff's department finishes an investigation launched after last week's broadcast.
The person who sent the video clip said he received it directly from a current Pecan Grove firefighter who took all the pictures.
Chief LeDoux admitted last week that the investigation is already focused on that fireman, who is also a full-time Houston firefighter.
The board that oversees the fire department will meet on Thursday, when the matter is expected to be discussed in a closed session.
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