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Ryan E. Graichen—whom you may remember as the Madison High School resource officer who videotaped high school girls' "breast and crotch areas" while on duty—was jailed Thursday in Kennewick, Washington. The charges? Two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor with photography and three counts of commercial sexual abuse of a minor, according to the Benton County Jail.
Graichen is accused of approaching three teenage girls on June 13 in Columbia Park, Washington, and offering them each $300, pot and booze in exchange for coming home with him and allowing him to film them topless while he masturbated.
Two days later, Graichen allegedly approached a teen couple and asked if they would come home with him and put on a show. Specifically, he offered the girl $500 in exchange for watching him masturbate, according to court documents prepared by Deputy Prosecutor Anita Petra.
Whether these five teens returned home with Graichen is unclear, but he was separately identified by four female victims involved in two cases—one in May, one in June—according to Kennewick Detective Bill Dramis. And when Kennewick police searched Graichen's home, they found a locked gun safe with 14 firearms and a zippered case marked "GREAT" inside; in the case was a three-ring binder full of pictures of teenage girls wearing bikinis, naked teenage girls and teenage girls "engaging in a variety of sexual activities", according to court documents. Police also found possible video and DVD footage, a bikini set, a bikini bottom, condoms, cameras and a sticky green substance suspected to be marijuana.
It is Benton County Jail policy not to release mug shots to anyone, including the press, but Graichen did not have the foresight to strongly restrict his Facebook privacy settings.
More on Graichen's Portland history after the cut.