A 20-year-old man who called the police early this morning after three men robbed him of two pounds of marijuana was himself arrested after officers arrived at his West DePaul apartment and found drugs, police said.



Max Fleck, of the 1500 block of West Fullerton Avenue, was charged with one count of felony possession of a controlled substance and another two of possession of cannabis, according to Chicago police.



Fleck and a companion called police at about 12:40 a.m. after three men they had invited to their apartment assaulted Fleck and his friend and made off with the marijuana, police said.



According to investigators, Fleck had invited one of the three men to his home and instead all three came. The five spent about an hour at the apartment before one of the men punched Fleck and broke a bottle over his companion's head.



The companion, a 19-year-old man, also suffered a cut to his back, but it was unclear how he got the injury, police said. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, said a Chicago Fire Department spokesman.



When officers and paramedics arrived Fleck declined medical attention. As the officers spoke to him about the robbery, they saw various other drugs "in plain view."



Fleck was arrested and charged.



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