Cops Use Underage Girl in Another Porno Sting If it worked in Cincinnati against Larry Flynt, Tallahassee cops figured it would work in Florida- and it did. Using a 17 year-old girl as jail bait deputies raided four Tallahassee sex stores Wednesday, charging five people with peddling porn to a minor. The arrests came after a 17-year-old girl posed as a customer and was able to buy adult videos at Rick's Toy Box on North Monroe Street, Greg's Video on West Tharpe Street, X-Mart Adult Superstore on West Tennessee Street and Intimate Encounters on Crawfordville Road, according to detectives. Store owners called the undercover sweep "entrapment" and criticized deputies for using a 17-year-old to buy adult sex products. Sheriff Larry Campbell, once part of a campaign [some say a witch hunt] to drive adult stores out of Leon County in the early '90's, said he's just trying to make sure stores that sell dirty movies run a clean business. The sting was prompted by complaints, including a letter-writing campaign, questioning sales practices at the stores, according to police. Detectives wired the teen-age girl - a high school senior who's frequently paid to do undercover alcohol buys - and sent her to shop at eight Tallahassee stores. They gave her marked cash, but told her to spend lightly, the girl said, asking that her name not be used. It was her first time in a sex shop, but "you just have to be mature about it," she said. She told store employees that she was shopping for her boyfriend, who was too embarrassed to come inside. Since the sting was operating on a budget, she avoided the expensive movies and shopped the $9.95 racks, she said. In each store, she picked out one movie, browsed the lingerie sections briefly so she didn't arouse suspicions and then approached the check-out counters, the teen said. Among the titles she selected: "Over my Knee, Part II" and "The XXX Files." Clerks at four of the shops, including Rick's on West Tennessee Street, checked her ID and ordered her out. The others paid no attention as they sold to her - except for Bradley Harvey, owner of Intimate Emporium, who helped her pick out a video, the girl claims. "He gave me his card and he was like, 'Anytime you need anything, I've got catalogs,'" she said. Harvey and clerks from three other stores were charged with selling obscene material to a minor, a third-degree felony. Each was released from the Leon County Jail after posting $2,500 bail. Two of those arrested were at Rick's Toy Box. One of them was a veteran employee and should have known to check the girl's ID - but the other was simply there for a job interview and had no idea what was going on, according to Robin Smith, regional manager. Smith said the store likely will help with an attorney and said she was exploring other legal responses to the arrests. According to Smith, vice detectives entrapped her workers by sending in a "dolled-up" teen-ager who looked much older than she was. Worse, they sent the girl into adult video stores, where she would have seen things she never should have, she said. "They should look at what they did because they contributed to the delinquency of a minor by sending her into the store," Smith said. "They should look at what they did instead of just pointing the finger at us." Campbell has predicted more arrests.