Man who robbed German national, Charlo man gets five years
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Nicholai T. Assiniboine
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POLSON – A St. Ignatius man who robbed a German national and a Charlo man last year was sentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections on Jan. 3.
District Judge James A. Manley departed from the recommended sentence in a plea agreement that called for a five-year deferred sentence for Nicholai T. Assiniboine, 27.
Assiniboine was sentenced to five years each for two assaults with a weapon. Both sentences will run concurrently. Two robbery charges were dismissed. He was given credit for 125 days in jail.
Manley suggested that Assiniboine be considered for the Treasure State Correctional Treatment Center’s boot camp. Probation and parole will decide the restitution amount.
In the first incident, Assiniboine was charged after a man reported that Assiniboine and another man came to his residence in the 3700 block of Dublin Gulch Road in Charlo, where Assiniboine said he was going to take the victim’s “drugs and stuff,” pointed an AK-47 at the man and forced him to strip naked. Assiniboine then took the victim’s clothing and wallet and left in a green Toyota pickup.
On Aug. 31, a German national who was camping on Mission Dam Road near St. Ignatius reported that two men came to his camp. One of the men, identified in the court document as Assiniboine, asked the German to produce a permit for camping and then got a gun and told the victim that he needed to pay $500.
The German fled without his camera, which a witness, Jero Sharp, said Assiniboine kept, according to a court document. The German gave police the license plate number of the vehicle the men arrived in, which was registered to Sharp. Tribal officer Casey Couture contacted Sharp, who said that the gun in question was a pellet gun. The gun was later recovered by law enforcement.
