A man who was wanted in connection with a kidnapping in northern Manitoba late last month has been arrested in Winnipeg, RCMP say.

Riley Champagne, 36, was arrested Wednesday, RCMP said in a news release Friday. He was wanted for charges of kidnapping with a firearm, forcible confinement, assault with a weapon and other weapons-related offences.

The hunt for Champagne began after a 25-year-old woman told RCMP on Sept. 29 that she had just escaped from a vehicle, after being held against her will at a residence for the previous 48 hours.

The woman believed she had been drugged after she met and drank with a man and woman at a bar in Thompson.

She later woke up in a vehicle as it pulled into Gillam, more than 200 kilometres away, police previously said.

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