Police: Armed robbery conspiracy alleged as payback

A man could face life in prison after allegedly using a gun while robbing another man as part of a revenge conspiracy.

The 18-year-old man, whose name is being withheld pending his formal charging, is alleged to have cooked up the scheme involving three other people to assault the man described as the victim at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy last year, according to an affidavit used to secure the man’s arrest warrant filed last week.

The 18-year-old, who had another male accomplice, enticed a woman to drop the two of them off at the school before going to pick up the male identified as the assault victim. A female who was involved told police that the man and the other male told them the planned assault was for, “Payback.”

The female enticed into driving told police with the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police Department that she had previously told the man that she wouldn’t help on several occasions, but finally relented.

The female dropped the two alleged assailants off at the school and drove to the alleged victim’s residence with the other female to pick him up. When they arrived at the school to drop him off, the two males assaulted the alleged victim in the backseat.

The male who was reportedly assaulted told police that while scuffling with the two over his bag, the man who was arrested pulled a gun.

When they were finished allegedly assaulting him, they pulled him from the car, got into it and one told the female driver to leave, according to the affidavit.

Police found the man reportedly assaulted walking westbound on East Broadway Street with a bloodied face.

The man was arrested for armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery Sunday morning, according to the Jail Tracker. He is expected to be formally charged Monday afternoon. Prosecutors could opt to charge him differently than what he was arrested for.

No age information was available for the reported victim, alleged male accomplice and two females involved, so no identification of them as either children or adults was possible.