A mother said she and her two children were kidnapped from the Walmart parking lot in Sallisaw Saturday.

Janie Holcomb told Sallisaw police that she and her two children were walking out of Walmart at about 7:30 p.m. when a man approached her and asked them if he could get a ride to Muldrow. Holcomb told the man no, she was going the other way.

Holcomb said the man then told her he had a knife in his pocket and he would use it if she didn’t give him a ride to Muldrow.

Holcomb made her two children get into the bed of her pickup truck and she drove to Interstate 40 and headed toward Muldrow with the man sitting on the passenger side.

She said the man would hide his face every time they would go under a streetlight, and he could not sit still during the drive to Muldrow.

When Holcomb took the exit ramp at Muldrow and stopped at the stop sign, the man got out of the truck and took off running. She told police her two children got into the front of the truck and the three of them headed to the police department.

Holcomb was able to give a detailed description of the man to Sallisaw Police Officer Mark Rutherford.

While Rutherford was at Walmart viewing the video footage from the surveillance camera he received a radio call from dispatch informing him that Roland Police Department had a male subject matching the description Holcomb gave.

When Rutherford arrived he asked the man, Nicolas Mason, 29, of Muldrow to get out of the back of the Roland police officer’s car.

According to the report, Mason asked Rutherford what this was about and Rutherford asked Mason how he got to Muldrow.

“I got a ride with a woman and her two kids,” Mason said.

Rutherford placed Mason under arrest and put him in his patrol car. Rutherford reported Mason could not sit still. Mason said he needed a doctor because he had swallowed a big black capsule.

Rutherford took Mason to Sequoyah Memorial Hospital in Sallisaw. The emergency room doctor said he believed Mason was under the influence of an intoxicating substance.

Mason was released from the hospital and booked in to the Sallisaw City Jail on three counts of kidnapping. According to the police report a weapon was never found on Mason.

Mason was transferred to the Sequoyah County Jail where he is being held on a $150,000 bond. Mason was arraigned Wednesday in Sequoyah County District Court, Sallisaw.