What started out as a stroke of good fortune for a Michigan man simply acting as a good Samaritan for helping a person he thought was blind turned into a nightmare when his own family allegedly robbed and kidnapped him.

The wild series of events began on Aug. 15 when the victim saw a social media influencer who was pretending to be blind outside a pawn shop in Detroit, according to police. After the victim stopped to help the man, the social media influencer revealed his true identity. The influencer then organized a GoFundMe that raised over $100,000 plus a new car for the victim.

But instead of being happy for the victim, his nephew, Roland Terrell Chatmon, orchestrated a plot to rob and kidnap him, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit .

Some of the plot was captured in reco

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