FAIRHOPE, Ala. — John Woodrow Uptagraft, 44, has been held without bond since his booking Monday in the Baldwin County Corrections Center on first-degree felony charges of kidnapping and burglary after his arrest Sunday in Point Clear by Fairhope police officers, following a search in connection with the alleged abduction of a local woman at gunpoint.

Uptagraft, who works at Johns Transmissions in Eight Mile, Ala., according to a company website, will have a bond hearing today, a corrections center employee said Monday.

“It was good police work by the officers involved,” police spokesman Sgt. Craig Sawyer said Monday of the suspect’s capture and arrest, which took less than six hours Sunday morning. “Patricia Evans is fine. She was interviewed at the station after the incident. ”

Police responded to Spring Run Apartments in Fairhope at about 5 a.m. Sunday, where witnesses reported that Evans, 41, had been forced into a vehicle by her apparent boyfriend, following a break-in at her apartment.

Shortly before 10 a.m., Fairhope police issued an alert to be on the lookout for the vehicle, which was spotted by Cpl. Eric Johnson in the Barnwell community south of town at about 11 a.m. Johnson followed the suspect into Point Clear on Scenic Highway 98, where he was stopped and arrested after other officers arrived. Evans was found in the car and rescued unharmed, police said.

“The suspect had gone there armed with a pistol, broke the window to his girlfriend’s apartment, entered the apartment and took her by force,” Sawyer said. “We do know there was at least one witness present. He pointed the pistol at the witness also to keep him from getting involved.”

After her rescue, Evans was emotionally distraught and shaken up by the incident but otherwise unharmed, Sawyer said. Uptagraft cut himself during the break-in and was examined by paramedics but refused treatment, he said.

The first degree kidnapping and burglary charges against Uptagraft are Class A felonies and each carry a possible sentence of 10 to 99 years in prison and a fine of not more than $60,000.