SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake man is facing serious criminal charges after police say he chased after a 12-year-old boy who “doorbell ditched” him and forcefully held the boy until his parents arrived.

Tony Arnold Bernstone, 58, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with child kidnapping, a first-degree felony, and child abuse, a class A misdemeanor.

“(Bernstone’s) reaction to what is perceived to be a silly childhood game of ding-dong ditch was concerning and over the top,” prosecutors wrote in charging documents.

On Aug. 1, a 12-year-old boy and his friends rang the doorbell at Bernstone’s Sugar House home and then ran away. Bernstone reacted by getting on a bicycle and chasing after the boys, the charges state.

He caught up with the 12-year-old boy at an elementary school, “gra

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