An 18-year-old man is in custody after a young boy was allegedly abducted at knifepoint while walking home from school in Drumheller, Alta., on Wednesday.
Police say the six-year-old was one of three boys approached by a man driving a white car. The boys said the man flashed a knife at them before he grabbed the boy and drove away.
The RCMP had issued an Amber Alert for the boy. But officers in Gleichen, about 100 kilometres east of Calgary, spotted the car less than an hour after the alert was sent out.
RCMP Sgt. Patrick Webb said the arrest went without incident.
"Both the suspect who was arrested and the boy have been returned to Drumheller," Webb said. "The young lad is going to be checked out medically and that just to make sure he is safe and sound, but everything appears to be good at this time."
Webb said no link has been determined between the suspect and the boy.
"It could be termed random," Webb said. "But that will be one of the questions that we are going to be putting to this individual, trying to find out exactly why he ended up in the town of Drumheller."
Webb said the suspect is known to the RCMP and that charges are expected to be laid Thursday.
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