A kidnap incident, that began in Connecticut, ended in Berks County on Monday.

State police at Hamburg said they received an alert from the Norwalk Police Department in Connecticut at 7 p.m. of a possible child abduction and stolen vehicle out of Stamford, Connecticut. At the time Norwalk officers had “pinged” the victim’s phone, a 25-year-old woman from St. Louis, Missouri, in an area along Interstate 78 in Berks County. Troopers immediately responded and stopped the suspected vehicle, a 2018 Chevrolet Malibu. Davon Walls, 30, of St. Louis, was taken into custody without incident.

The woman and her two children, boys, ages 5 and 1, were in the car.

Troopers said the woman had driven to Connecticut to pick up her two children who were with Walls over the holidays. At the pickup site Walls forced his way into the vehicle with the victim and two children and began to drive to St. Louis. The woman said during this time Walls assaulted her. The woman and the children were taken to an area hospital to be checked out. The victim suffered minor injuries to her face, arms and legs and the children were unharmed.

Walls was arraigned before a district judge on charges of kidnapping, unlawful restraint, receiving stolen property, strangulation, simple assault and terroristic threats. He was committed to the county prison in Reading after failing to post $200,000 straight cash bail.