A Tulsa, Okla., woman pleaded guilty to federal charges in a Cranberry Township sex trafficking case.

Shelby S. Brown, 28, waived prosecution by indictment and pleaded guilty to a bill of information to violations of coercion and enticement of an individual to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity and conspiracy to commit that offense before U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon in Pittsburgh.

Brown and Oscar Carter III were arrested in March 2018 by Cranberry Township police, accused of running a prostitution ring out of a township hotel.

Police found them after they arrested a 17-year-old female in Pittsburgh after arranging a sting online. The girl told police she had been recruited into the ring from Akron by Brown and Carter.

Local charges were dropped after Carter and Brown were indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2018 on charges of interstate transportation of a minor for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual activity, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child.

According to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady, Brown admitted that in March 2018 she conspired with Carter to coerce the minor to travel from Ohio to Pennsylvania to engage in prostitution.

Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 14, 2020, with Brown facing up to 25 years and a $50,000 fine. The case was handled by the FBI, Cranberry Township police and Pittsburgh police.

Brady said the case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.