A 31-year-old Florida man was bound over Wednedsay to Macomb County Circuit Court on carjacking, robbery, torture and unlawful imprisonment charges for an alleged abduction from outside a Shelby Township fitness center nearly two years ago.

Judge Stephen Sierawski of 41A District Court in Shelby Township ordered Xavier Gardner of Brandon, Fla. to face trial on one dozen charges for the October 2023 alleged abduction of Giovanni Plumaj from outside Lifetime Fitness on Hayes Road, following a preliminary examination over two days.

Gardner and five co-defendants forced Plumaj into a vehicle and was taken to his Sterling Heights home, where police interrupted the alleged assailants, arresting the driver of the suspect vehicle following a short chase and a second man at the nearby MJR Marketp

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