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Release Number: 09-084

For Immediate Release

Public Information Office

March 19, 2009

JD Callaway: jcallawa@hcso.tampa.fl.us

(813) 247-8060

 

 

Who:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derek Tyron Williams

DOB 9/25/58

12413 Oak Cedar Place #202

Tampa

 

Charges: Soliciting Another for Purposes of Prostitution (two counts); Transporting Another For Purposes of Prostitution (two counts); Deriving Proceeds From Prostitution (two counts); interference with child custody

 

What:

Using teen for prostitution purposes

When:

Arrested Wednesday evening, March 18, 2009

Where:

321 E. Fletcher Avenue

Why/How:

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the Sheriff’s Targeted Area Response Team (STAR) culminated an undercover investigation on Wednesday night with the arrest of a Tampa man who was using a teen-age girl to make money from prostitution. The teen was forced to accompany the defendant to a motel in Tampa after he made a deal with undercover deputies for her to commit prostitution. The teen is 17 years old. The defendant and another adult, a female named Julana A. Morris, were arrested at the scene. Morris, who gave at At Large address, was charged with prostitution and possession of cocaine.