OPP have charged three people for allegedly holding a Kingston-area taxi driver at ransom earlier this month.
Frontenac OPP say they received a report from a local cab driver on Nov. 14, saying they were threatened, assault and held at ransom by a customer at a home on Battersea Road.
OPP say cash was stolen from the cab driver’s taxi, and then he was taken to another location where more funds were allegedly extorted from a coworker.
The taxi driver was not injured during the incident.
On Monday, OPP executed a search warrant at a home on Battersea Road, where two people were arrested.
The Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating an alleged robbery and extortion incident.
Jamie Edward Smith, 50 of South Frontenac, is facing the following charges:
- uttering threats cause death or bodily harm
- uttering threats- damage to property
- forcible confinement
- robbery with theft
- extortion
- conspiracy to commit an indictable offence
- two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon contrary to a prohibition order
Kelly Ann McGlennon, 47 of South Frontenac has been charged with:
- forcible confinement
- robbery with theft
- extortion
- conspiracy to commit an indictable offence
- two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon contrary to a prohibition order
On Wednesday, OPP arrested a third person allegedly involved in the incident, 26-year-old Scott Stephen McCallan of Kingston, who was charged with:
- forcible confinement
- robbery with theft
- extortion
- conspiracy to commit an indictable offence
- failure to comply with a probation order