5 sentenced for brazen 2023 kidnapping in Port Moody’s brewery district

From 2023: The five people charged for a brazen Port Moody kidnapping appear in court Monday.

The fifth and final person charged in a brazen kidnapping on Port Moody’s Brewer’s Row in April 2023 has been sentenced, local police announced Wednesday.

Michael Albrecht was the last of the five accused to plead guilty, entering his plea to one count of kidnapping on Oct. 29 of last year, the Port Moody Police Department said in a news release.

Albrecht was sentenced on Jan. 16 to what police described as “an effective sentence of three and a half years in prison.”

Asked for clarification, the PMPD explained that this means Albrecht will spend a total of three and a half years behind bars, including time spent in custody before sentencing.

The other four individuals charged in the case also entered guilty pleas, with Cameron Duffin the first to do so on Nov. 21, 2023.

Duffin received “an effective sentence of five years in prison” for kidnapping on May 7, 2024, according to police.

Oliver Hanson pleaded guilty to kidnapping on Dec. 7, 2023, and was sentenced on Jan. 21, 2025 to “an effective sentence of four years and eight months,” police said.

Delaney Donaghy pleaded guilty to unlawful confinement on Dec. 14, 2023 and received a conditional sentence of two years less a day, while Nathanial Lecky entered a guilty plea to kidnapping on Jan. 11, 2024 and was sentenced on Feb. 28, 2025. He received “an effective sentence of five years in prison,” according to the PMPD.

All of the charges stemmed from an incident that occurred around 10 a.m. on April 19, 2023.

Police received multiple calls about a man who had been “pulled into a vehicle” in the brewery district, and “a complex investigation” ensued, the PMPD said.

Authorities have previously said the victim—a man in his 40s—was held hostage for two days and then rescued, though they have provided few details about what that rescue entailed.

In its statement Wednesday, the PMPD thanked the Vancouver Police Department and the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team for their assistance in the investigation and on the rescue operation, which took place in Mission, B.C.

The charges were laid against the five suspects less than a week after the kidnapping occurred.