Af­ter spend­ing hours in cap­tiv­i­ty, a 43-year-old San­ta Cruz man was res­cued by po­lice af­ter be­ing tak­en from his home at gun­point yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The kid­nap­pers re­port­ed­ly con­tact­ed rel­a­tives and de­mand­ed a ran­som of $200,000 for his safe re­lease.

A re­port was made and of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), to­geth­er with the Home In­va­sion Team (HIT) and oth­ers, were mo­bilised and ini­ti­at­ed an en­quiry in­to the in­ci­dent.

Sources con­firmed that the man was found in “gen­er­al­ly good health,” at a house in Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille, around 3.30 pm yes­ter­day.

No one was ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the kid­nap­ping.

Po­lice said the res­cue was led by of­fi­cers of the AKU, the HIT, the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) Op­er­a­tions Team and the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF).

It was co-or­di­nat­ed by DCP In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Natasha George with as­sis­tance from ACP Richard Smith of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion and Snr Supt An­der­son Pa­ri­man of the AKU.