‘Different men here every day’: Suspect charged with trafficking women out of Southgate home

Authorities claim that an Allen Park man was caught trafficking women out of a Southgate property he owns, and he is currently being held on a $1 million cash bond. He is linked to a bigger sex trafficking bust involving massage parlors, according to the police.

(FOX 2) SOUTHGATE, Mich.Although they have only lately learned the reason, neighbors on Superior Street claim to have seen cars full of men waiting to visit a house on the street.

Last week, Michael Richard Navoy, 70, of , was detained for allegedly .

“Yes, I did. When questioned about if she had seen anything strange at the house, neighbor Alicia Manning responded, “I was like, I wonder what’s going on over there.” Every day, different males were present. It looked like an illegal massage parlor to me.

Navoy is currently being charged with collecting money from a prostitute, engaging in forced labor that leads to commercial sex, using a computer to conduct a crime, and maintaining a prostitution home.

His acquaintances claim they were unaware of his activities.

“Even though there was talk he was up to something none of us could have imagined it was to this extent,” stated Claude Cotes.

Having known Navoy for ten years, Cotes, a former business associate, stated that he would visit Canada but was vague about his exact plans. According to Cotes, he might have been going in order to pick up the victims who would subsequently be trafficked.

“He said he was going to Windsor to help women with their paperwork so they could have access to coming to the States,” according to him.

According to authorities, Navoy is connected to defendants who were detained and charged in Wayne and Macomb counties last week. It’s regarded as one of the biggest sex trafficking busts ever.

A $1 million cash bond is now being used to hold Navoy.

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