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SOMERSET, Mass. --- Police have charged a man with kidnapping, saying he forced his girlfriend to remain at his house for two days and injured her.

Christopher Mello, 35, of 185 Fourth St. was taken into custody Sunday when officers spotted him driving past the police station while the victim was giving a statement.

The victim told Officer David Labreche and Detective Tracey Costa, a domestic violence investigator, that Mello held her against her will last week and intimidated her because he did not want to let her end their relationship.

The officers said that scrapes and other marks of injury were still visible several days after the alleged incident.

Costa obtained a search warrant, and reported finding evidence that confirmed the victim's statement.

Mello was also charged with assault and battery, intimidation of a witness and destruction of property. He was ordered held at the Bristol County House of Corrections in lieu of $20,000 bail.

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