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Warren Motel Case Ends in Prison Terms
Two Detroit men sentenced years apart after survivor’s escape triggered prosecutions.
A Warren motel case that began with a November 2023 escape closed another chapter as Aaron Streety received concurrent prison terms; co-defendant Bernard Harris had been sentenced last year, with additional federal time in a separate meth case.
In Macomb County Circuit Court, Judge Kathryn A. Viviano sentenced Aaron Kaycee-Lynardo Streety, a 41-year-old Detroit resident, to concurrent terms for three human-trafficking convictions tied to a Warren motel case, imposing 7 to 20 years for forced labor and two additional 7 to 15 year terms for related enterprise and commercial-sex acts, and ordering no contact with the survivor; records indicate the pleas resolving the counts were entered in June 2026 on the day trial had been scheduled, and Streety must also complete a prior 2019 human-trafficking sentence before starting the new terms (Macomb Daily, n.d.; The Detroit News, n.d.).
The prosecution centered on a single night—November 3, 2023—when a woman fled a room at a Warren motel and reported that two men had compelled her to engage in sex acts with multiple buyers for money, an account that triggered the investigation and led to charges against Streety and Bernard Harris, both identified as Detroit residents in charging summaries and coverage (Macomb Daily, n.d.; The Detroit News, n.d.; ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4, n.d.).
Bernard Harris, 25, had already resolved his role last year, entering no-contest pleas in June 2025 and receiving on March 5, 2025, a term of 108 to 240 months in the Michigan Department of Corrections for the Warren case, matching a parallel sentence for a separate first-degree criminal sexual conduct case in Roseville; the court also ordered lifetime registration under Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry, while in a distinct federal matter U.S. District Judge Hala Jarboby imposed four years in August 2024 in Marquette for methamphetamine conspiracy involving the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan (Macomb Daily, n.d.; ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4, n.d.).
Streety’s resolution came by plea rather than verdict—coverage described it as no-contest while court records summarized guilty pleas to three counts—an alignment that carries the same adjudicative effect in Michigan and left sentencing solely to the court, which structured the terms to run concurrently and imposed a no-contact order with the identified survivor (Macomb Daily, n.d.; The Detroit News, n.d.).
Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido, whose office brought the case, said the outcome holds the defendants to account and reaffirmed a stated commitment to stand with survivors and pursue justice across the county; Streety’s attorney, Camilla Barkovic, was not immediately available to respond to the sentence or the court’s conditions, according to the reporting (The Detroit News, n.d.; Macomb Daily, n.d.).
The Warren case is one of several recent trafficking matters flagged by authorities and local press—charges in Sumpter Township announced in March, a Metro Detroit operation charged in February, and a separate federal conviction and sentence entered in Detroit in December—each reinforcing that the regional response has widened beyond a single motel room; if you or someone you know may be a victim of human trafficking, call 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733 (The Detroit News, n.d.).
Locations: Warren, Warren, Detroit, Macomb County, Macomb County, Roseville, Marquette, Upper Peninsula
Tags: conviction, state, federal, investigation