LYNN – A judge ordered a city teen held without bail after Saugus Police said the defendant and an accomplice beat and robbed a man to whom they were trying to sell a stolen car.”The guy in the back seat behind me, the passenger, started choking and smothering my mouth and (the alleged accomplice) got out and came around to the passenger side and hit me with a baseball bat six times,” the alleged victim wrote in a statement.Angel M. Rodriguez, 19, of 23 Hanover Circle #1, pleaded not guilty Monday in Lynn District Court to charges of armed robbery; assault and battery; conspiracy; and receiving a stolen motor vehicle.Police responded at 3:05 p.m. Aug. 25 to the area of 215 Fairmount Ave. in Saugus where they found the alleged victim bleeding from the mouth, with fresh red marks on his legs and breathing heavily, Saugus Police Officer Thomas Wilson wrote in a report.The alleged victim told police he and his friend, Stephen Hegarty, had driven from Woburn to buy a car in Lynn, and the two picked up a man later identified as Rodriguez once they got to the city. The three then drove to Fairmount Avenue in Saugus; the alleged victim was in the front passenger seat and Rodriguez was behind him in the back seat, according to police.Rodriguez then allegedly began to choke and smother the alleged victim. Hegarty pulled the car over, got out and started hitting the alleged victim with a souvenir baseball bat, police were told in reports. The two suspects robbed the alleged victim of approximately $2,800 and his cell phone and left him on the side of the road, where passers-by called police, officers reported.An Atherton Street resident reported finding an unfamiliar car parked in her driveway later that day, police said. Police recovered the car and learned it belonged to the father of a friend of Rodriguez’, and Rodriguez did not have permission to use the vehicle, police reported.Police identified Rodriguez through fingerprints in the vehicle, and the defendant was positively identified by the alleged victim, according to court documents. Officers sought warrants for both Rodriguez and Hegarty.Essex Assistant District Attorney Brendan Kelley requested that Rodriguez be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing and that bail on a prior case be revoked. A public defender requested a seven-day continuance on the hearing so a Superior Court attorney could prepare.Judge Albert Conlon ordered Rodriguez held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Sept. 15.