A sex trafficker has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. 36 year old Akporode Uwedjojevwe of Michigan, pleaded guilty in November to one count of Sex Trafficking and one count of coercion. He was arrested in April, 2015 by SET detectives who had responded to a report of a sexual assault that had just occurred at a local casino. During their investigation, detectives interviewed three women, all of whom were between 19 and 21 years of age and from Michigan. Detectives were able to identify him as the man responsible for having brought the women to Reno to work as prostitutes.