An Inkster man was sentenced to 5 to 20 years in prison on July 20 for his involvement in a major Metro Detroit vehicle theft operation, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.
Amarion Jordan, 23, was sentenced by Judge David Cohen in Oakland County’s 6th Circuit Court. The sentencing follows Jordan’s guilty plea in June 2026 to one count of Conducting a Criminal Enterprise.
Jordan was originally charged in December 2025 with conducting a criminal enterprise along with four counts of receiving and concealing stolen motor vehicles.
Prosecutors linked him to a string of auto thefts across Metro Detroit between 2023 and 2025. Among the stolen vehicles tied to the operation were a 2017 Bentley, a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee, a 2024 Dodge Durango, a 2023 Cadillac Escalade, a 2018 Dodge Challenger, a 2023 GMC Yukon Denali, and a 2024 Lincoln Navigator.
The Attorney General’s Office first publicly disclosed its investigation into the ring in May 2024. The Troy Police Department began looking into the operation in August 2023 before partnering with the state’s FORCE Team in early 2024. Investigators reported that the ring targeted individual residences, parking lots, car dealerships, and new-vehicle storage yards at manufacturing plants.
Numerous municipal police departments assisted in the investigation, including teams from Auburn Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield Township, Canton, Dearborn, Detroit, Eastpointe, Farmington Hills, Lansing, Livonia, Novi, Roseville, Royal Oak, Southfield, Sterling Heights, Walled Lake, and Warren, alongside the Macomb County Auto Theft Unit and the Oakland County Auto Theft Group.
“The FORCE Team, along with the Troy Police Department and law enforcement agencies across metro Detroit, has done tremendous work dismantling this prolific auto theft ring and holding perpetrators accountable,” Nessel said in a statement. “These thefts devastate victims and harm our local businesses, and we will continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute the criminal networks that threaten the safety and economic well-being of our communities.”
The FORCE Team—short for Focused Organized Retail Crime Enforcement—was established by Nessel in January 2023 to target organized criminal rings. The unit includes dedicated state special agents, two full-time assistant attorneys general, and Michigan State Police detectives. It also collaborates with federal authorities, including the Postal Inspection Service and the FBI’s Detroit Fraud and Financial Crimes Task Force.
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