Xavier Gardner

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A Florida man’s case has advanced to Macomb County Circuit Court for allegedly violently abducting a man outside a Shelby Township gym in 2023.

Xavier Gardner, 31, was bound over to trail Aug. 27 on one count each of carjacking, conspiracy to commit carjacking, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, torture, unlawful imprisonment, conspiracy to commit unlawful imprisonment, first-degree home invasion, and conspiracy to commit first-degree home invasion, as well as three counts of felony firearm.

According to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, Gardener and five others allegedly carjacked a man at gunpoint, restrained him in his own vehicle and drove away. The suspects, according to reports, allegedly tortured the man, drove to his house, a

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