An Innisfail man accused of kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting his former spouse has reserved his plea.
The 55-year-old man was arrested at the Cross Iron Mills shopping centre at Balzac on March 28 after a woman passed a note to a security guard, alleging that she had been kidnapped.
RCMP called to the scene allege that they witnessed the man beating the woman at the mall and that he also attacked a police officer while resisting arrest.
The suspect is to return to Airdrie court on July 19 to enter pleas on charges of housebreaking with intent to commit a crime, sexual assault, choking with intent, assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, kidnapping, uttering death threats, resisting a police officer, assaulting a police officer, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public and breaching the conditions of a recognizance.