Three people were charged Thursday in connection with the kidnapping of a man who was kept in a St. Paul building, allegedly in a case tied to a Mexican drug cartel. With information that the man was being held in a Payne Avenue building across the street from the police department’s Eastern District parking lot,

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Three people have been charged in connection with a kidnapping in St. Paul on Tuesday. Erilng Soren Holdahl, 48, Kendra Sue Johnson, 39, and Richar Sanchez Mujica, 30, have all been charged on two counts of felonious kidnapping.

Three people have been charged in connection with a kidnapping in St. Paul earlier this week. Kendra Sue Johnson, 39, faces two counts of kidnapping Richar Sanchez Mujica, 30, faces two counts of kidnapping Erling Soren Holdahl, 48, faces two counts of kidnapping, one count of first-degree drug possession and one count of illegal firearm possession