SAGINAW, MI — A man has been charged in court after he attempted to make a woman sell her jewelry to a Saginaw Township gold store and give him the proceeds, later fleeing into the woods, according to police.

Kenneth C. Compeau, 25, of Omer is charged with extortion and resisting and obstructing a police officer, according to court records.

The woman, who was with the suspect at the store, whispered to a store clerk to call the police, according to the Saginaw Township Police Department.

Officers responded and the suspect ran into the woods nearby the store, police said, and was found during a search with a tracking dog.

In arraigning Compeau on Monday, May 13, Saginaw County Chief District Judge M. Randall Jurrens entered a not guilty plea on his behalf and ordered him held on a $15,000 or 10 percent bond. Compeau remains jailed.

Compeau

is scheduled for a May 23 preliminary hearing before Jurrens.

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