Overview

• Oakland County prosecutors charged Jacob Michael Nelson, 39, with conducting a human trafficking enterprise, accepting earnings from prostitution, and transporting a person for prostitution in a case now pending.
• Authorities allege he solicited customers online, forced a woman to have sex for money, and beat her when she refused to perform sex work.
• Prosecutors say the woman was compelled to take Adderall and methamphetamine to enable her to serve more customers.
• If convicted, Nelson faces up to 15 years for the enterprise charge and up to 20 years each for the accepting earnings and transporting charges.
• Officials report this is the office’s 34th trafficking case since a November 2024 training and the 73rd since a dedicated unit launched in 2021, compared with five in the nine years before the unit.