Kidnapping charges, Cairns
Cairns detectives have charged two men after a teenager was allegedly kidnapped at Redlynch on Sunday night.
It will be alleged a 17-year-old Whitfield boy was in a shopping centre carpark about 10pm on Sunday night when two men, who are known to him, approached him in a vehicle.
The men allegedly punched and threatened the teen with a knife before forcing him into the vehicle and demanding he take them to a residence in Caravonica where he was released about fifteen minutes later.
Police stopped the vehicle about 11.15pm on Brinsmead Kamerunga Road at Lake Placid and arrested two men.
A 25-year-old Cooroy man and a 27-year-old Machans Beach man have both been charged with one count of kidnapping.
The Cooroy man will appear in the Cairns Magistrates Court today.
The 27-year-old man was also charged with one count each of serious assault of a person over 60, wilful damage and stealing following investigations into an alleged assault in Cairns CBD on April 11.
He will reappear in the Cairns Magistrates Court on July 2.
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