By Thia James

Abduction, murder suspect in custody, to face 1st-degree murder charge

Feb 19, 2015 | 10:51 AM

The man suspected of abducting a 17-year-old girl and shooting and killing her boyfriend is now in custody and will face multiple charges including first-degree murder and kidnapping with weapons, after he was barricaded in a home in Sturgeon Landing, Sask., according to the RCMP.

RCMP officers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan found Jonas Budd in a home in the community and set up a perimeter around the home. On Friday morning, the Saskatchewan RCMP issued a statement confirming that Jonas Budd was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. without incident and will be making his first court appearance in La Ronge on Monday.

Budd will face charges of first-degree murder, break and enter, kidnapping with a weapon, uttering threats, pointing a weapon, possessing a dangerous weapon, and possessing a firearm while prohibited.

An employee at the Sturgeon Landing Outfitters said the RCMP left overnight. She added that the RCMP had been stationed at the medical clinic the day before.

On Thursday afternoon, the RCMP had also “taken over” the Sturgeon Landing Health Clinic, according to an officer who answered the phone. He said all the employees at the clinic were sent home because there is an “incident” going on.

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His sister Joyce Budd had claimed police were not letting him turn himself in.

“If there was any chance that my brother could hear us talking, I would tell him that I love him. I’ve got my son here. Our family is so stressed out right now. We just want my brother to come out of the house and we want him alive and well,” Joyce said.

“We know he has to pay consequences. He knows that also. Why aren’t the police working with him to allow him to start?”

His niece Amber Roy had also said Budd is located at his brother’s Glenn’s house, and the RCMP has cut the phone lines to the home.

Joyce said Glenn tried to hand deliver a letter from Jonas Budd to the RCMP. Glenn is not in the home, but is with the RCMP in Sturgeon Landing, she added.

The home that Glenn lives in once belonged to their father, Pierre, who, according to Joyce was found dead in the early 1990s inside the home.

“My dad, they considered it a suicide, but I heard the gunshots myself. I was young, but I was on the phone with him when the gunshots went through and he was still talking to me, trying to talk to me.”

At that point, Sgt. Craig Cleary with the RCMP could not confirm whether Budd was trying to give himself up to police.

Several units from the Saskatchewan and Manitoba RCMP were at the scene.

On Wednesday, Kayla Natomagan was abducted after  Dustin Bird was shot in her home. The girl was later found safe by Cranberry Portage RCMP in Manitoba.

Sturgeon Landing is located near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border and is south of Flin Flon, Man.

With files from CKOM.

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