UPDATE: alleged bank robber tried getting ride from undercover Saginaw Township detective
by Andy Hoag | The Saginaw News
Saturday July 11, 2009, 2:04 PM
Out of prison for just over three weeks, Mark E. White chose the wrong car to try to hitch a ride with on Wednesday.
Just two blocks from the Citizens Bank at 2815 E. Genesee in Saginaw that he allegedly robbed five minutes earlier, White, 50, flagged down Saginaw Township Detective Scott Jackson of the auto theft division for a ride.
Mark E. White
Jackson slowed his car enough to allow city patrol officer Ian Wegner enough time to provide backup, and a little more than three weeks after he was released from prison on parole, White was back in police custody.
Saginaw County District Judge Terry L. Clark on Friday arraigned White on a charges of bank robbery, making a false bomb threat, attempted carjacking, assault with intent to commit a felony and assault and resisting a police officer.
Clark set bond at $755,000 for White, who was in Saginaw County Jail.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 24 before District Judge Kyle Higgs Tarrant.
The officers arrested White, 50, three blocks from the bank shortly after the 2:30 p.m. robbery.
As White saw Wegner getting closer, he tried opening Jackson's passenger door without permission. After Jackson told White he was a police officer, White tried to flee before Wegner apprehended him.
White gained parole from West Shoreline Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights on June 16, where was serving to 15 months to 10 years in prison for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated-third offense and violating a previous parole.
His current address is listed as 402 Lafayette in Bay City.
White was previously on parole for another unarmed robbery case in Oakland County in 1994. That conviction, along with two counts of uttering and publishing, earned him a minimum 10-year sentence that began in 1996.
