William Carl Jay.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — An Albany woman accused of agreeing to perform sex for money and the man who drove her to a Moultrie hotel were jailed Wednesday during an undercover operation.

Agents with the Moultrie-Colquitt County Drug Enforcement Team took Ida Nicole Milotte and William Carl Jay into custody after arranging by text for Milotte to travel to the hotel on Veterans Parkway North.

“We began talking to a girl who was advertising online for sex,” Sgt. Channing McDowell said. “She agreed to come from Albany to Moultrie for $250 for an hour and (to) meet me in a hotel room.”

After Milotte got there at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, McDowell said, they made an agreement for a specific sex act in exchange for the money. She refused to accept the money being handed to her.

“(However) I put the money on a table,” he said. “As soon as I put the money on the table she grabbed it. She put the money in her purse.”

At that time McDowell gave the code word to a fellow officer listening at another location and he entered the room and arrested Milotte.

McDowell then approached Jay, who was waiting in the parking lot.

“He said he did not know why she was in Moultrie, that she just asked him on Facebook to give her a ride,” he said.

Jay allowed police to examine his cell phone, McDowell said, and messages between the two indicated that he initially asked Milotte to pay him for the ride by having sex with him. She declined that offer and agreed to give him gas money, to which he eventually agreed.

Both were charged with misdemeanor charges — Milotte, 30, 634 W. 12th St., Albany, with prostitution, and Jay, 40, 1708 Christopher Cove Road, Albany, with pimping.

Under Georgia’s pimping statute a person commits the crime by conspiring to benefit from the proceeds of an act of prostitution, in this case gas money, McDowell said.

Milotte also was charged with a felony count of possession of methamphetamine.

“She appeared to be under the influence of some type of drug or substance,” he said. “She said she does use meth. She consented to give a urine sample.”

That sample tested positive for methamphetamine, McDowell said.

In other recent activity, drug agents arrested two inmates at Colquitt County Correctional Institution after guards found suspected drugs on them when returning from outside work details.

Johnny Roque, 22, and Jarrett Leonard, 26, were each charged with possession of drugs by an inmate.

During a strip search as the inmates returned on Tuesday, officers found a small amount of suspected marijuana inside a plastic bag concealed in Roque’s uniform, McDowell said.

Leonard was arrested after a search turned up a suspected ecstasy pill on another inmate. That inmate told officers he got the pill from Leonard.

“Guards approached Jarrett,” McDowell said. “He took them to a laundry basket.”

Inside the basket was a plastic bottle containing some 35 pills that tested positive for ecstasy, he said