NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
October 13, 2005
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Offi
(850) 651-7420
ELECTIONS
FRAUD ARREST
The
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office announces that a man at the center of an
international child sex investigation is being held in
58-year old George Hoey Morris, of
Investigators with the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office say although Morris was
convicted of a felony offense involving the sale of illegal narcotics in
Federal authorities say the arrest means Morris will remain in detention in the
Morris is at the center of an international probe involving allegations he
took part in unlawful sex with hundreds of minor females between the ages of
eleven and fifteen in other countries, including
Law enforcement officials believe Morris poses a danger to the community and is
a flight risk.
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