 Three men are being held in connection with two abductions in North Grenville Thursday. From left, Christopher Page, Whitley Clauzel and Roger Levesque are shown as they are transported for an appearance in a Brockville court Friday. (Nick Gardnier, QMI Agency)
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OTTAWA - The victim of an alleged double-abduction in the Kemptville area said in e-mail exchanges with the Sun that one of the men police have arrested is a former boyfriend whose anger has been simmering since she ended their relationship in the fall.
"(He) is my ex. I broke up with him back in October. Thanksgiving day."
Friends of Mireille St-Denis said she met Christopher Page while she was a student at North Grenville District High School, completing a co-op placement at an area construction company where Page worked.
St-Denis was taken from her Acton's Corners home at gunpoint early Thursday and thrown into the trunk of a car. Her family was held at gunpoint during the abduction.
She was found by police 90 minutes later thanks to a cellphone.
Late Friday evening, St-Denis, who graduated from North Grenville District High School last year, admitted she was unable to discuss any further details of what had happened to her.
"It scares me thinking about it," she said.
St-Denis, 18, said in an e-mail Friday that while it was reported police found her by tracking a GPS device embedded in her cellphone, she didn't have any devices with her and it was Page's cellphone they followed.
In a bizarre twist to the story that emerged Friday, according to OPP investigators, a 24-year-old Ottawa man, reported to be St-Denis' older brother, was abducted by the same three suspects between 3:45 a.m. and 6 a.m., then driven to a Kemptville residence and dumped, still bound but physically unharmed.
Around 7 a.m., the three men burst into St-Denis' home on White Birch Dr.
It is unknown why her brother was allegedly abducted.
St-Denis said in an e-mail that her hands were bound with handcuffs.
She was not hurt in the incident, but police said she was "traumatized."
Page, 24, of Russell, has been charged with three counts of kidnapping with a firearm, four counts of forcible confinement and one charge of criminal harassment.
Two accomplices, Roger Levesque, 19, of Nepean, and Whitley C. Clauzel, 48, of Ottawa, were both charged with three counts of kidnapping with a firearm, four counts of forcible confinement and one count each of wearing a disguise with intent.
On Thursday, police seized a white Grand Marquis registered to Page's father, after pulling St-Denis from the trunk.
Page has had numerous run-ins with the law.
In August 2006, he was charged with assault, forcible entry and conspiracy to commit murder in Nation Township.
He was convicted on three counts of assault, while other charges were withdrawn.
Clauzel has a lengthy and violent criminal past, convicted of manslaughter in 1983, and convicted of aggravated assault in 1987. His criminal record is dotted with various weapons offences.
- With files from Terri Saunders and Megan Gillis
scott.taylor@sunmedia.ca
