A man has been arrested and charged in connection to a kidnapping in Evansburg.
RCMP has received reports that an adult had been kidnapped at gunpoint on Highway 16A and Range Road 81 on Sunday.
Other RCMP detachments were called in to help search. When the vehicle was found and officers tried to stop it, the driver sped away.
Officers followed the vehicle and were able to stop it. The victim was rescued, but the suspect fled the scene.
A shelter-in-place was ordered while RCMP searched, the man was later found in a residential area north of Range Road 150.
The man had tried to break into a home, but was stopped by the homeowner then ran into the woods before surrendering to police.
The 50-year-old Onoway man has been charged with flight from police, forcible confinement, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, resisting/obstructing a police officer and mischief under $5000.
He has a court date at the Alberta Court of Justice in Stony Plain on Wednesday.
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