5 men charged after 2 sophisticated, retaliatory kidnappings in Calgary [Video]

Five men from Alberta and Ontario are facing numerous charges, including kidnapping, sexual assault and firearms-related offences, after what police are calling two sophisticated and planned kidnappings in Calgary last year.

Calgary police began their investigation after a woman in her 20s was kidnapped on May 2, 2023. Police said she was returning to her vehicle in a parking lot outside her work in northeast Calgary when she was approached by an unknown man and forced into a vehicle.

The woman’s family was notified that she had been taken, and police were called.

During this investigation, police learned that a second woman, who is in her 50s, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in southeast Calgary. This kidnapping happened several hours after the first woman was taken “and was believed to be an act of retaliation,” police said in a news release Monday morning.

The women were taken to …