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The wiretap

On May 19th and 20th, 2001, a 14 year old boy who said he had been solicited by Brady Smith was wiretapped by the Champaign Police, to attempt to get another solicitation on audiotape.  There are two parts to this:  a phone call between the youth and Smith on Saturday night around 10:00pm, and then a conversation between the youth and Smith at Smith's home on Sunday evening.

Phone Conversation:

Page 1 - Legal stuff
Page 2 - Technical problems with recording
Page 3 - Saying hi, youth asks for money
Page 4 - Youth wants money for cell phone, Brady doesn't want to give him money
Page 5 - Brady wants to know how youth will pay back money
Page 6 - Continued
Page 7 - Brady says it is time to bargain for how youth will pay money back 
Page 8 - Brady says he'll think about ways for youth to pay it back and call him back.
Page 9 - Brady calls back and says money has to come after "his end of deal".
Page 10 - Youth asks whether his end of deal is sex, Brady asks if there are 19 people on line and answering machine on.
Page 11 - Youth wants to know so he can think about it, and Brady says he already knows what the deal is, accuses youth of being slick
Page 12 - Brady asks youth to think about it and give him a call.
Page 13 - Brady said he'd get together this evening if the youth wanted to.
Page 14 - Brady said he will pick up youth and conversation ends.

 

At Smith's House, next day.  Note there is a TV on in the background, and some of the conversation is responding to what is on the TV, which is the reason why the State's Attorney believes the tape is vague.

Page 0 - Legal stuff
Page 1 - Youth arrives
Page 2 - Chit-Chat
Page 3 - Chit-chat
Page 4 - Chit-chat, with insults
Page 5 - Chit-chat
Page 6 - Youth asks for money
Page 7 - Brady gives youth 10 dollars
Page 8 - Brady references $100 for something, youth asks for what, Brady says you know for what
Page 9 - Brady says the youth doesn't want to be victimized and "can't handle it"
Page 10 - Brady says youth has to "lay there" on the bed to get the $90, and can't handle it.
Page 11 - Youth says Brady wants to have sex with him for $90, and Smith says what, youth repeats question, Smith say
"yeah".  Youth says it might have to be $150 and Brady says "You got it", then talks about Julia Child.
Page 12 - Brady says he won't raise the price, and the youth would have trouble explaining where the money came from
Page 13 - Chit-chat
Page 14 - Youth gets phone call
Page 15 - Youth gets another phone call, and leaves