Man who robbed German tourist changes plea
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Nicholi T. Assiniboine
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POLSON – A 27-year-old St. Ignatius man who was charged with robbing a German national and a Charlo man last summer in separate incidents has accepted a plea agreement.
Nicholi T. Assiniboine pleaded guilty to two counts of assault with a weapon on Nov. 16. Two counts of robbery were dismissed.
The plea calls for him to be sentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections with credit for time served. Sentencing is set for Jan. 4.
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.
The victim’s sister witnessed the incident, according to a court document. 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. Sharp said Assiniboine intended to rob the victim and he tried to talk him out of it. The gun was later recovered by law enforcement.
