7/9/2015 – OKC, OK — Another Oklahoman alleged to have been pimping out a child has been given a get out of jail free card by the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s office.
Back in November of 2012 JohnTV reported on the arrests of Natasha Elizabeth McCanne and Audrea A. Leroy after they were caught up in a prostitution sting conducted by the Oklahoma City Police Department’s Vice Unit.
According to court documents, an undercover officer placed a call to a local escort service and asked for someone to come to a motel on S. Meridian Ave.
When the woman arrived she promptly offered to perform oral and vaginal sex on the undercover officer for $120.
When the young woman was taken into police custody it was learned that she was only 16-years old and listed as an endangered runaway out of Shawnee.
Additional undercover officers monitoring the motel parking lot noted that McCanne and Leroy had transported the teen to their location and that McCanne had been driving the vehicle.
Both McCanne, 18, and Leroy, 26, were taken into custody and booked into the Oklahoma County Jail on felony complaints of transporting a child for the purpose of prostitution. McCanne was also arrested for drug possession.
When investigators searched McCanne’s cell phone they reportedly found prostitution related texts between her and the juvenile.
It was a full sevens months later before the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s office bothered to get around to filing criminal charges – and when they did, they only filed charges against McCanne.
Even though McCanne was facing up to ten years in prison on the prostitution crime alone, only four months later she was arrested again.
As reported by JohnTV back in Oct. of 2013, McCanne was arrested with local violent pimp Orlando Loriane Newborn (aka, “Repete”) after the two were caught up in yet another prostitution sting. Charges were never filed against McCanne in that arrest.
The criminal charges from McCanne’s 2012 arrest lingered about for a full two years after being filed before the case would come to a conclusion.
On June 24 of this year, Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater’s office filed a motion to dismiss both the transporting a child for prostitution and drug charges against McCanne. The reason listed in the court record, “in the best interest of justice.”
JohnTV is not sure how DA Prater’s office defines “best interest” or “justice” — but we believe its safe to say it differs from the public’s definition.
Click here to read more examples of pimps and human traffickers Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater’s office turned a blind-eye to.