5/9/2015 – Edmond, OK — A male student and former soccer player with the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond has pleaded guilty to prostituting himself in exchange for a more serious felony charge to be dismissed.
JohnTV was the first to break the story of the arrest of then 21-year-old Bryan Christopher Phillips after it was alleged he had been promoting himself online as a male prostitute.
According to court records, on Oct. 7, of last year, a female undercover Oklahoma City Police officer replied to a suspected ad for male prostitution that was posted to Backpage.com (see ad below).
Ad believed to have been posted by Bryan Phillips
After reportedly texting back and forth, Phillips agreed to meet the undercover officer at Edsel’s Club on S. Meridian Ave. in south Oklahoma City.
Once there, the two chatted it up a bit and Phillips confirmed he charges $200 for both vaginal and oral intercourse, that he brought a condom and that his ‘Jane’ (the undercover female officer) could pay him once they got back to their hotel room.
Phillips was taken into custody as the two left the bar.
Phillips was transported to the Oklahoma County Jail and booked on criminal complaints of offering to engage and computer crimes.
When Phillips was being booked in to jail, he gave his home address as a student housing complex on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma.
It was almost five months later before formal criminal charges were filed against Phillips.
On Feb. 27, of this year, Phillips was charged with one misdemeanor count of offering to engage in prostitution and one felony count of computer crimes.
Fastforward to last Thursday and Phillips’ case has come to a conclusion.
Satirical poster regarding Bryan Phillips’ prostitution arrest and guilty plea.
Phillips stood before Oklahoma County Judge Glenn Jones as assistant district attorney Erika Gillock announced that the state had reached a plea agreement with Phillips.
In exchange for Phillips’ guilty plea to the misdemeanor prostitution charge, the state agreed to dismiss the more serious felony computer crimes charge.
Phillips was then formally sentenced to three-years of probation, to be supervised by the DA’s office, $100 fine and court costs. Phillips’ sentencing is considered a ‘deferred sentence’ which means in the future this will not be considered a conviction and Phillips can eventually have the opportunity to have his record cleared.
In light of the facts surrounding this case; Phillips has no apparent prior criminal record. Phillips was prostituting of his own free will. Phillips is not alleged to have been involved in the prostitution of any other 3rd party. Phillips was keeping his prostitution “BCD” (Behind Closed Doors). And he was an adult prostituting himself to other consensual adults…. JohnTV agrees with the sentence imposed.
JohnTV readers will recall that in March another male UCO student also pleaded guilty to prostitution related charges. In that case, 24-year-old senior Ali Hussain Al-Yousuf pleaded guilty to being a pimp – more specifically, to one count of maintaining a house of prostitution and one count of aiding and abetting prostitution. Despite running an Edmond brothel and pimping his own 20-year-old girlfriend out of their apartment he actually only received two-years of probation and never faced any felony charges.
The apparent lesson being…. sell yourself you face being a felon, sell someone else’s daughter and its basically just a traffic ticket. Way to go Oklahoma County ‘Justice!’ (insert eye-roll)
Bryan Christopher Phillips’ Probable Cause Affidavit
Bryan Christopher Phillips’ Oklahoma County Jail Booking Information.