3 charged with mid-April kidnapping on Paul First Nation

RCMP (file photo)

Three people are in custody and charged with several offences related to a kidnapping case earlier this month on a First Nation west of Edmonton.

Parkland RCMP said in a media release on Wednesday that a 20-year-old woman and two men aged 27 and 33 were arrested on separate days last week and face charges including kidnapping, extortion, robbery with a firearm, assault causing bodily harm and other weapons offences.

Police said the trio held two people against their will on April 13 at a home on Paul First Nation where they beat, threatened and robbed them. RCMP said two of the people charged had firearms and discharged them.

Police learned of the incident the next day.

The woman was arrested on April 19, while the 33-year-old man was found and detained by police on April 22, both in Edmonton. The 27-year-old man was arrested at a Spruce Grove restaurant on Thursday.

The Paul First Nation is 60 kilometres west of Edmonton on the eastern shore of Wabamun Lake.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Parkland RCMP at 825-220-7267, or to contact Crime Stoppers anonymously by phone at 1-800-222-8477 or online.