MADISONVILLE-A member of Alabama law enforcement has been indicted by the Monroe County Grand Jury after he allegedly held a man captive at gunpoint Sept. 29.

Ronald Pate was indicted on charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping after he was reported to have confronted man who got lost while bear hunting.

Michael Kince Rodgers told Monroe County Sheriff's Deputy Marla Richeson he was at his uncle's house on Smoky Branch Road when he decided to go bear hunting. Rodgers said he got turned around in the woods, saw a man on a riding lawn mower at a house and decided to ask him where he was.

Rodgers said as he got closer, the man jumped off the mower and began yelling and acting like he wanted to fight. Rodgers said the man, later identified as Pate, asked what he was doing and Rodgers said he gotten lost while bear hunting and just wanted to know where he was, but said he'd just leave and find his way back to the road.

See full story in the Sunday, Oct. 28, edition of The Advocate & Democrat.