Bendigo Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged four people following an alleged kidnapping investigation in the Bendigo area.
On 9 June a male was located by a bushwalker in a critical condition along a dirt track in parkland near Comet Street just after 2.30pm.
It's alleged the victim, a 26-year-old man, was forced into a vehicle on 9 June and assaulted in bushland before being taken to an address in Kangaroo Flat where he was further assaulted.
Following the assault, the victim was forced back into a vehicle and driven to the bush track and left there.
On 19 June, warrants were executed at multiple addresses in Kangaroo Flat, with three people arrested in a joint police response involving Bendigo Crime Investigation Unit & Central Victoria Response Unit, with the assistance of Special Operations Group and Western Region Crime Squad.
A 36-year-old woman, a 31-year-old man and a 35-year-old man, all from Kangaroo Flat, have been charged with multiple offences including false imprisonment, reckless cause serious injury in circumstances of gross violence and intentionally cause injury.
All three have been remanded to appear in Bendigo Magistrates' Court in September.
A 27-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested by the Special Operations Group at an address in Caroline Springs yesterday, 12 July.
He has been charged with multiple offences including kidnapping, false Imprisonment, armed robbery, reckless cause serious injury in circumstances of gross violence.
He has been remanded to appear at Bendigo Magistrates' Court on 14 July.
