Updated: Editor Accused of Soliciting Prostitute

Updated Saturday, 12 p.m.

Citing the Cherokee Tribune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the married and now former newspaper editor met an suspected prostitute online, then at a bar, and allegedly agreed to pay her $200 for oral sex.

Original Report

Managing editor of the Cherokee Tribune since May, local resident Brandon Wilson, 33, was arrested Thursday in Canton and subsequently fired from the newspaper.

While he offered no other details, spokesman Lt. Jay Baker said Wilson, of Mountain Ridge Drive in Cartersville, is charged with pandering.

Two others were arrested along with him, one on a charge of pimping and the other on a charge of prostitution, according to a report provided by Baker.

Wilson was arrested at 12:50 a.m. and booked into the at 1:35 a.m., but released at 7:15 a.m. after posting $680 bail.

Baker gave no further information and the report did not specify the precise location in Canton where Wilson, Erik Leshaun Jackson and Sonya Lynn Strobel were arrested.

The Tribune, however, reported that collared the trio at the on Juniper Street, across from the .

Jackson, 29, of Long Beach, CA, was charged with pimping and Strobel, 25, of Smyrna, was in taken into custody on a prostitution charge. Bail was set at $680 each.

Wilson moved from the MDJ to become managing editor of the Tribune last year after the Cherokee County School District hired long-time editor Barbara P. Jacoby as the system's spokesman.