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Four people facing kidnapping charges

Four people well-known to police face a slew kidnapping and weapons charges following arrests at a Fort St. John motel and a Taylor home last week. Fort St. John RCMP say its officers attended a room at the unnamed motel on March 7 around 4:50 a.m.
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Four people well-known to police face a slew kidnapping and weapons charges following arrests at a Fort St. John motel and a Taylor home last week.

Fort St. John RCMP say its officers attended a room at the unnamed motel on March 7 around 4:50 a.m. after observing suspicious activity, according to a news release issued on Tuesday.

In the room, officers found a loaded semi-automatic firearm and three individuals were arrested.

With a warrant, police searched both the room and two vehicles, and officers seized a semi-automatic firearm, a sawed-off shotgun, a large quantity of drugs and various drug trafficking paraphernalia, according to the release.

While officers were at the motel, a person attended the detachment to report they had been kidnapped in Dawson Creek and forcibly confined at a home in Taylor, police say. Officers went to the home with a search warrant, where a fourth person was arrest and two more guns were seized.

The Crown has approved a total of 24 charges against Christopher Munch, 42; Gavin Davis, 29; Natasha Ray, 34; and Theodore Capot-Blanc, 26.

Charges include kidnapping with a prohibited firearm, forcible confinement, and various other firearm and drug offences.

Munch, Davis, and Capot-Blanc remain in custody. Ray was released on an undertaking.

Fort St. John RCMP call the effort a "multi-jurisdictional investigation" that included plain clothes officers, the Regional General Investigations Section, the Dawson Creek RCMP, and police dog services.