INKSTER (WWJ) -- Human trafficking, prostitution and other charges have been filed against two men nearly seven months after they were pulled over in Inkster with a missing girl in their car.
Michigan State Police say one of them, 28-year-old Steffan Alexander Harris, was arraigned Monday on the following charges: Human trafficking of a minor for commercial sexual activity, Prostitution/transporting person Prostitution/accepting earnings, Human trafficking enterprise causing injury, Child sexually abuse activity – aggravated distributing or promoting, and Habitual offender.
Back on May 20, 2022, MSP Metro South troopers were working the Secure City Partnership patrol in Inkster when they initiated a traffic stop.
A girl who had been reported as "missing and endangered" by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police Department was found in the vehicle with the two suspects, police said. The girl's age was not disclosed, but MSP said she is a juvenile.
She was returned to her parents and is recovering, police said.
The second suspect is already behind bars and expected to face a judge on his own long list of charges — including Human trafficking, Child sexual abuse and drug charges, and Habitual offender — on Thursday. MSP said not immediately release his name.
"Great job by troopers looking beyond the traffic stop and rescuing a young woman who was being sex trafficked," MSP said, updating the case on Monday.
Anyone who has a human trafficking tip is urged to call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 888-373-7888, or text 233733.
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