Tenn. Trooper Indicted for Porn Star Tryst

Oct. 16, 2007— -- A Tennessee grand jury today indicted a former state trooper — who allegedly videotaped sexual favors from a porn star, after disregarding illegal painkillers found in her car — on 10 charges stemming from inappropriate conduct in two separate traffic stops.

James Randall "Randy" Moss, 40, faces two counts of tampering with evidence, six counts of official misconduct and two counts of official oppression connected to the pair of incidents last year, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced in a news release.

"Moss is accused of stopping females for traffic violations where he would inappropriately approach them in a sexual nature," the release read. "If they complied, he would lessen their punishments."

The indictment followed an investigation that began in May 2007, when porn star Justis Ellen Richert, who performs under the name Barbie Cummings, posted a blog recounting sordid details of an alleged escapade with Moss, in which she performed oral sex on the trooper as a thank you for his disregard of narcotics found in her car.

In the blog, Richert, 21, recounted that, after pulling her over, the trooper found her "happy pills" — painkillers — while searching the vehicle. The trooper explained that the punishment for narcotics possession would likely prevent her from leaving the state, at which point Richert said she became upset and started to cry. Asked why she was crying, Richert said she told him that as a porn star under contract, she must travel from Knoxville to Los Angeles once a month to shoot scenes.

She said the two then moved inside Moss' cruiser where she said he asked about Web sites on which she might be featured. Richert gave him the domain name for her blog, and, according to her blog, the two of them watched clips from two of her movies on the laptop in his cruiser.

Then the trooper took "the hand full (sic) of pills and scatters them in the brush next to the interstate," she wrote in the blog. After that, she claimed he asked her to follow him to a secluded place, where she performed oral sex, while he allegedly took photographs and short video clips, using a hand-held camera from his cruiser.