The OU Department of Public Safety is wrapping up its investigation of suspected prostitution and charges are forthcoming for the alleged suspects, according to court documents.

An employee of the Sooner Hotel, 300 Kellogg Dr., called OUDPS on June 14 to advise them he thought a prostitute was on her way to the Sooner Hotel to meet a man. The man in question was registered under the name Knowles, according to police reports.

After police arrived, they waited outside the hotel for the suspected prostitute to show up. Upon arriving, the police followed the woman to the registered room of Knowles, according to an affidavit.

The police alleged hearing the woman say through a closed door "it will be a hundred for everything and 50 for a blow job."

The man then asked the woman another question, which the police did not understand, according to the affidavit.

The woman responded "we don't do that because it's not really safe...unless you want to wrap me in cellophane or something."

Police confronted the man when he came back downstairs to the lobby to use the ATM machine.

The man, Raymond Knowles, told the officers that he was at the hotel with a prostitute, according to the affidavit.

Officers followed him back upstairs to the room to talk to the woman. The woman was uncooperative when contacted, according to the affidavit. When police asked her about the comments made earlier behind the door, she denied saying anything.

The woman, Jessica Caves, was given a trespass warning for all OU property and released at the scene.

Caves, 19, had a prior citation in Oklahoma City for solicitation of sex, according to court documents.

OUDPS Det. John Bishop said there were numerous officers outside the hotel trying to find the vehicle that dropped off the woman. They then observed a car cruising around the parking lot.

"The officers continued to observe the vehicle circling the parking lot and pulled the vehicle over," he said.

Bishop said officers found a 15-year-old girl in the passenger seat of the stopped vehicle. That girl was detained and taken to the juvenile intervention center.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Caves and Knowles, and upon arrest, both will be charged with one count of engaging in or soliciting prostitution for "wrongfully engaging in prostitution, lewdness in exchange for $50," Cleveland County assistant district attorney Victoria Gillespie said.

Engaging in and soliciting prostitution is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for 30 days to one year or by fines up to $2,500, Gillespie said.

"Both individuals are first offenders in this county, so the female suspect would also be punished as a first-time offender even though she has a prior charge," she said.
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