SAGINAW — After nearly five years on the run, a Saginaw man who shares a name with a Star Wars character was arrested in connection with the shooting of a Freeland teen.

Lando Calrissian Young, 24, was arrested Monday by state police troopers in connection with the Jan. 3, 2006, shooting of Jordan Crampton.

State police learned that Young was living at a home on Wood in Saginaw and they pulled him over driving a family member’s vehicle, said state police Detective Sgt. Dave Simon.

"We believe the family was helping him out and hiding him after the shooting,” Simon said.

Saginaw County District Court records list Young’s address as 3445 Linger in Saginaw. Young also was known as Orlando Byrd, prosecutors have said.

In arraigning Young today on two counts of assault with intent to murder and single counts of possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, District Judge A.T. Frank entered a not guilty plea on his behalf and held him on a $1 million cash or surety bond. Young remained jailed today.

Police said at the time of the shooting that Crampton took a bullet in the face while he and a friend sat inside a parked car on Drexel near Hampshire in the Sheridan Park neighborhood on Saginaw’s southeast side.

Prosecutors said at the time that Young helped fuel the city’s spate of gang-related violence at the time.

The same evening about a mile away from the shooting of Crampton, a gunman killed Jimahle L. Donald, a Heritage High School student, on Webber near Glenwood.

Deondre D. Gaines in late 2006 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for Donald’s murder, the first homicide of 2006. Gaines also was convicted of two counts of assault with intent to murder Young and Patrick Price.

Police said the motive for the shooting was that the gang members believed Young was responsible for shooting Crampton. Gaines and three others climbed into an Oldsmobile Bravada with a handgun, primed to lash back at Young and other rival gang members, prosecutors said.

The group drove to a house on Glenwood, where they believed they recognized a man through a window, police said. Gaines knocked on the front door, Price opened it, and Gaines shot him in the stomach, police said.

A short time later, the group spotted Donald — who had just left a barber shop — and Gaines shot him, investigators said.

After shooting Donald, the group went to Sheridan Park, where they spotted Young and shot at him, police said.

Young is scheduled for a Dec. 13 preliminary hearing before District Judge Terry L. Clark.