The Region - News from April 14, 1987

Two Los Angeles-based dial-a-porn companies pleaded guilty to federal charges that they distributed sexually oriented matter by telephone, giving the government its first conviction under a federal law passed nearly four years ago. Adult Entertainment Network Inc. and Adult Entertainment Network Inc. II pleaded guilty to a complaint filed last week by Brent Ward, the U.S. attorney for Utah, charging that sexually explicit material was provided through use of 38 leased telephone lines. Ward said the companies were fined $100,000 apiece on their guilty pleas to two counts of making obscene communications to teen-agers in the Salt Lake City area and agreed to pull out phone lines.