Small town hot over stripper/pornstar scandal
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Posted on Fri, Jan. 16, 2004
Small town hot over porn scandal
By Patrick May
Mercury News
KEYES - Alexas Jones' résumé is a jaw-dropper: porn Web site operator, onetime stripper, mother of three, self-described secret agent with the Department of Defense, and volunteer firefighter in this Peyton Place of a town just south of Modesto.
So it's no surprise that Jones now finds herself in the middle of a three-alarm scandal rocking the Keyes fire department.
It's a family affair -- Jones' husband, Roger, is assistant chief. After he fired a cadet this week for allegedly surfing porn sites on the station computer while on duty, 22 other firefighters walked off in protest, leaving their boots lined up in the assembly room. They said Roger Jones was simply getting revenge because the cadet had looked at his wife's nude pictures at her subscription-only site, then tried to get his money back by canceling the check he had used to get a password.
But the assistant chief said the cadet -- unnamed and under 21 -- was breaking the rules and had to go. ``I don't care whose site he was looking at,'' Roger Jones said Friday. ``This was fraud.''
The local fire commissioners are expected to bring up the matter at their meeting Wednesday. The angry firefighters announced they would go back to their volunteer jobs late Friday. But in the meantime, the little town has been engulfed by gossip.
``What you do on your own time is your own business, including running a porn site,'' said Paula Thomas, working on a jigsaw puzzle with her mom Friday evening inside their convenience store, Thomas' Pit Stop. ``I don't care what you do -- as long as you're not doing it when you should be putting out my house on fire.''
Keyes is abuzz. The local television stations are having a field day with the brouhaha. Fire officials in neighboring towns are keeping their distance from what one referred to as ``the situation'' in Keyes, as if the little department is too hot to touch.
``We're two miles away and prepared to help them out at any time,'' said Chief Rick Fortado of the Turlock Rural Fire District. ``But we're not taking sides in this thing. They should have taken care of this internally and not gone to the press.''
Too late, and too much fodder. Alexas Jones, 33, is a soft-spoken redhead, reluctant to talk about her mysterious federal job (``I help protect military installations from terrorists,'' was all she'd say) or her 2003 arrest for dancing naked without a permit at a private party in a Modesto hotel. But she will gladly talk about her Web site, Chantel Lace.
Jones said she posed nude between the ages of 19 and 24, signing away the rights to the photos. According to her Web site, she has appeared in 15 triple-X movies on various video labels, 20 topless boxing videos, 30 ``cat fighting'' videos, 35 wrestling videos, 15 sex-fight videos and six bondage videos.
She regrets it today. Now happily married and the mother of three young daughters, Jones says she wants to retrieve all those images floating around cyberspace on other X-rated sites. To do that, she needs to raise money to buy back the rights. So last February, she started www.chantel lace.com, charging users to see photos of her and her friends.
``My goal,'' she said, ``is to use all the money I raise to buy back all those photos of me -- and then destroy them and my site.''
Department Capt. Herb Collier, who led the walk-off, said the Jones couple have tainted the reputation of the department, first with their arrest last year (Roger said he was arrested with his wife the night of the Modesto party for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit; he said he was merely holding his wife's gun, which they said was legally registered), and now with the publicity over the Web site scandal.
``This is the second time they have tied the adult industry to this fire district,'' Collier said, ``and they're giving us a bad name. That's what we're tired of.''
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Firefighters in California town resign to protest colleague's porn career
Friday, January 16, 2004
©2004 Associated Press
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(01-16) 16:20 PST KEYES, Calif. (AP) --
Seventeen firefighters in a small volunteer department resigned this week to protest the pornography career of a colleague who allegedly discussed her work at the firehouse.
Firefighters in Keyes, a town of 4,500 south of Modesto, walked off the job to protest Alexa Jones' pornography career, which they said she discussed while on the job with her husband, Assistant Fire Chief Roger Jones.
"We feel pretty strongly that there needs to be a separation between the pornography and the fire service," said Capt. Herb Collier, who was among those who resigned.
Alexa Jones has a Web site that promotes her pornographic material but does not mention her job as a firefighter. She stars in videos under a pseudonym.
"If they're going to be out there, I might as well be making money off them," she said. Her husband added: "It's called freedom of expression, and speech also. It's not illegal."
The resignations leave Keyes with eight firefighters. Nearby stations have pledged to help the department respond to emergencies.
©2004 Associated Press
YEAH, RIGHT [Heavy sarcasm] Isn't that a brilliant example of specious, superficial reasoning. Pose for porn to get money to buy back the porn she's posed for. I wonder if she'd piss into the wind as well. Yoda, perhaps you could be helpful by emailing her and coach her in the finer points of spin.