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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette speaks at the Bay County Republican Party's 2014 Lincoln Day Dinner.

(Danielle McGrew | The Bay City Times)

Jahan S. Green

In a world of broadening Internet access and smartphone use, prostitutes are increasingly swapping dim street corners for brightly lit computer screens.

That's where state Attorney General Bill Schuette's Human Trafficking Unit says 39-year-old Jahan Satati Green of Inkster, described as a pimp, conducted much of his prostitution business using classified ads posted on websites like Caigslist or Backpage.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana M. Hathaway sentenced the habitual offender -- he pleaded guilty to armed robbery in 1999 -- to between 20 and 40 years in prison on five felony convictions Monday.

A jury on March 29 found Green not guilty of human trafficking, but convicted him on two charges of transporting a woman for prostitution; two counts of earning money through prostitution and conducting a criminal enterprise.

"Green assaulted one young victim for six years, forcing her to engage in sex acts for money," Schuette's office said in a statement. "He also transported or arranged for transportation of the young victims to Detroit-area hotels.

"Green then made the victims give him the money they received from their acts of prostitution."

Schuette says Green operated throughout Oakland, Wayne and Monroe counties. He was arrested and charged in June 2015.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2,515 incidents of human trafficking were recorded nationwide between January 2008 and June 2010. Of those incidents, 1,016 involved the sexual exploitation of a child, 1,218 involved the sexual exploitation of adults and 350 involved labor trafficking.