The mother of a Canadian man, missing for nearly three weeks in the Dominican Republic, and found alive on Christmas Day, says her son was kidnapped at gunpoint, drugged, and dumped in the countryside, all over a case of mistaken identity.
"He has no idea what happened in the three weeks he was missing," Helen Wright said from her home in Hamilton, Ont. "He’s recovering now, but he’s still not fully better."
D’Arcy Wright was found disoriented in the resort town of Boca Chica, close to the Caribbean island’s capital of Santo Domingo, and about 200 kilometres from his new home in Sosua.
Wright told friends and family that he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Dec. 9 by three men, and was kept drugged. According to his mother, he lost track of time and was released when the kidnappers realized they had the wrong person. He managed to access the Internet at a hotel, where he contacted his friends and brother through email.
Wright’s brother and a friend led the search for the Hamilton, Ont. native.
Wright, 46, moved to the Dominican Republic in October, after he bought a property management company in Sosua.
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