SANTA ANA — A 21-year-old Fontana man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for human trafficking and pimping a 17-year-old girl in Santa Ana.

Armani Montrale Green was convicted Nov. 21.

Green pimped the victim between May 3 and May 5 of this year on Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana, Deputy District Attorney Bryan Clavecilla said. Green was arrested in the early morning hours of May 6.

Green’s attorney, Rob Harley, argued that his client shouldn’t have been arrested because he was being racially profiled as a black man. Harley argued that about half of the pimping defendants in Orange County are black, despite the fact that the county’s population is only 2.1 percent black.

Jurors heard a recorded phone conversation between the victim and Green discussing his demands that she earn at least $300 before he would pick her up for the night, Clavecilla said.