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Saskatchewan RCMP have charged 24-year-old Mike Bouvier from Canoe Narrows with armed kidnapping as well as other offences after an incident on Island Lake First Nation on May 15.
RCMP said in a news release on May 18, that Bouvier had also been charged with pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, uttering threats, assault, unauthorized possession of a firearm and the theft of a motor vehicle after a woman was allegedly taken against her will.
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The incident prompted a dangerous person alert to Island Lake First Nation and surrounding areas.
Police said their investigation found a man had entered a home with a firearm and left a woman in a vehicle.
Officers from multiple Saskatchewan RCMP units searched the area and spotted the suspect vehicle off Highway 699, between Island Lake First Nation and Loon Lake later that day. RCMP said the vehicle had previously been reported as stolen from Canoe Narrows.
The vehicle was empty, and police used dogs and drones to hunt for the pair in a nearby wooded area.
They found and arrested the man, police said, and located the woman a short time later. She was assessed by paramedics for “non-life-threatening” injuries, police added, and officers also found an airsoft handgun and an “inoperable” firearm.
Bouvier is scheduled to appear in Meadow Lake Provincial Court on May 20.
Island Lake First Nation is located west of Loon Lake, near the Alberta border.
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