NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
December 17, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

FIVE CHARGED IN PROSTITUTION STING


Shera Cherelle Morris

Brandy Sue McKinney

Karen Naomi Dawson

Hillary Maureen Gryzboski

Lacy Ann Gentry

The Community Policing and Problem-Oriented-Policing Units of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office today (Wednesday) arrested five women on charges of prostitution. Residents' complaints, combined with observations by community police officers in the Wright and Hetherington area off Racetrack Road, led to the operation.

Charged with prostitution:

* 22-year old Shera Cherelle Morris, address unknown

* 30-year old Brandy Sue McKinney of Fort Walton Beach

* 34-year old Karen Naomi Dawson of Fort Walton Beach

* 34-year old Hillary Maureen Grzboski, address unknown

*28-year old Lacy Ann Gentry of Fort Walton Beach

     Deputies say each of the women solicited a confidential source for money in exchange for sexual activity.

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