By Canadian Press

KIDNAPPING INVESTIGATION

RCMP investigate kidnapping at Lethbridge McDonald’s

Oct 22, 2019 | 6:01 AM

LETHBRIDGE- Police in southern Alberta are looking for a suspect who kidnapped a man who was sitting in his vehicle in a Lethbridge McDonald’s parking lot.

Investigators say a man brandishing a large machete approached the driver’s vehicle just before midnight Sunday.

They say the suspect jumped in and forced the driver to go to an ATM and withdraw money from his own account.

The suspect then forced the man to drive to a supervised drug consumption site before heading to the Blood reserve where the driver was left behind.

He flagged down a passerby, but the suspect returned in the driver’s vehicle and began to chase both the man and the person who had stopped to help.

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They were able to call 911 and several police agencies were called in to chase the stolen vehicle, which was eventually founded abandoned in Fort Macleod.

(The Canadian Press, LethbridgeNewsNow)