MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – Both men involved in a human trafficking incident from November 2023 have been sentenced.
The charges against Aaron Streety, 41, and Bernard Harris, 25, both from Detroit, stem from an incident on November 3, 2023.
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On that date, a human trafficking victim escaped from the two men after they forced her to perform sex acts with multiple men in exchange for money at a hotel in Warren.
The two men were sentenced by the Macomb County Circuit Court.
On July 1, 2026, Streety was sentenced after pleading no contest in June 2026 to three criminal charges involving human trafficking.
The charges include subjecting a person to forced labor or debt bondage resulting in serious bodily injury: 7 to 20 years, enterprise resulting in injury or commercial sexual activity: 7 to 15 years, and forced labor resulting in injury or commercial sexual activity: 7 to 15 years.
Streety has been ordered to have no contact with the victim.
In June 2025, Harris pleaded no contest in Macomb County Circuit Court to one count each of human trafficking enterprise resulting in injury or commercial sexual activity, human trafficking forced labor resulting in injury or commercial sexual activity and prostitution/pandering.
On March 5, 2025, Harris was sentenced to 108 to 240 months in MDOC for the human trafficking case and to the same term for a separate case involving first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Harris is also serving four years for a federal count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan.
Harris is subject to lifetime registration on the Sex Offender Registry and was ordered to have no contact with the victims.
Under Michigan law, sentencing decisions are made solely by the court. The prosecution presents its recommendations and arguments, but the final sentence is determined by the judge.