UPDATE: On Oct. 25, the Edmonton Police Service announced that 25-year-old Dakota James Hughes, of Edmonton, had been charged with kidnapping and theft of a motor vehicle. They said 23-year-old Jacob Lloyd Chambers, of Edmonton, had been charged with kidnapping, theft of a motor vehicle and operating a vehicle while prohibited. Hughes was arrested in downtown Edmonton on Oct. 21 and Chambers was arrested with the help of transit peace officers in Edmonton’s Churchill Square on Oct. 22.
Two male suspects wanted in connection with the abduction of a vulnerable woman that triggered an Amber Alert are in police custody.
Edmonton police said Monday that the two suspects were located and taken into custody over the weekend.
Police said their names will be released on Friday “once charges have been formally sworn.”
Police said they believe the suspects stole a van and the the 40-year-old blind and non-verbal woman was seated in a wheelchair inside the vehicle. She was taken at 7:25 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19 in the area of 118th Avenue and 91st Street. An Amber Alert was issued about an hour later.
Police said the van she was in was left idling outside of a store while her caregiver ran inside to make a quick purchase.
The stolen 2013 white Toyota Sienna van was discovered by an off-duty RCMP officer parked and still running on a street in Fort Saskatchewan just before 9 p.m.
The woman was found safe and unharmed inside the van. Once on scene, police said EMS transported the woman to hospital purely for precautionary reasons.
— with files from Karen Bartko, Global News
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