Attorney General Dana Nessel marked National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, held Wednesday on January 11, by announcing the arrest and arraignment of a man responsible for conducting a sex trafficking enterprise that victimized women in Port Huron, Kimball and Detroit.
32-year-old Alexzonder Rodriguez of Detroit was arraigned on Saturday, January 7 in a Detroit district court on three counts of forced labor/commercial sex, a 15-year-felony; two counts of pandering, a 20-year felony; one count of accepting earnings of prostitution, one count of transportation for prostitution and one count of conducting a criminal enterprise, with all three counts each being 20-year felonies.
The charges stem from February 2021 to June 2022, when Rodriguez operated a prostitution ring with at least five women, organizing transportation and other arrangements for his victims to engage in sex work before he kept the earnings.
AG Nessel praised the FBI’s Southeast Michigan Trafficking and Exploitation Crimes Task Force for their work and adding that, “It is incumbent upon us all to know the signs, review the resources and report trafficking when we suspect it.”
