Armed Crime Squad detectives have charged a man following an aggravated burglary and kidnapping in Alfredton earlier this month.

Emergency services were initially called to a report of an altercation between a man and a woman outside a residential property about 12.30am on October 4th.

The pair then left the property on foot.

The 27-year-old Alfredton woman was subsequently located at the same address shortly before 6.15am that same morning.

She was not physically injured.

A search for the 32-year-old Lake Gardens man allegedly involved in the incident has taken place since that date.

At 2.45pm on Wednesday, an off-duty police officer recognised the man in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the Delacombe area.

Local police were called, and the man was intercepted in the car park of t

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