Two Langley men have been arrested along with the father of a boy allegedly abducted but recovered on Sunday.

Kenneth Daniel Morey, 34, has been charged with three counts of assault and one of forcible confinement related to the kidnapping of his 12-year-old son.

The son was taken from the home of his grandparents in Chilliwack.

Morey and two accomplices then reportedly drove to Surrey, where they switched from their car to a taxi and backtracked to Langley.

Surrey RCMP caught the suspects and found the boy unharmed at a Walnut Grove gas station, at 88th Avenue and 200th Street, on Sunday evening.

The two other men arrested are aged 17 and 56. Both have been released and will appear in court later to face formal charges, according to the Chilliwack RCMP.

Morey has also been released, with the condition that he have no contact with his son. He will appear in court on Oct. 12.

On the weekend, the RCMP issued an Amber Alert for the child, prompting a Fraser Valley-wide search and many tips to police.

At the time, the police said the boy’s father, paternal grandfather, and another relative stormed the Chilliwack home of his maternal grandparents at about 1 p.m.

The grandparents were assaulted and the boy taken.

“I just got flattened and then I had two more guys on top of me, all three of them beating on me, pulling my wife’s hair, punching her, choking her, as well as me,” the maternal grandfather told a Global BC TV crew that evening. “In the meantime, [the boy] is screaming.”

Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Lea-Anne Dunlop said that at the time of the incident, the boy was scheduled to be in the care of his grandparents.

The grandparents sustained minor injuries in the incident, but were able to give a description of the men to police, who then issued an Amber Alert.

Dunlop said the violent nature of the abduction prompted the urgent search. She also said the three men believed to have kidnapped the boy had several connections throughout the Lower Mainland that caused police to believe they were heading that way.

The alert quickly paid off when a woman in Surrey reported to police that she saw the father and son leave Guildford Mall in a taxi.

When the pair left the taxi in Langley, police swooped in, arresting the father.

Amber Alerts are rare, and police must have sufficient information on a potential abductor to issue one. The program has been in place since 2004.

At the time the most recent incident, the RCMP released names of the victims and the men being sought for committing the acts outlined in the Amber Alert.

Now that charges have been laid and the issue is before the courts, and a publication ban is expected soon, the Langley Advance will not publishing the names of the victims.

The boy was returned to his Chilliwack home on Sunday evening.

“It’s a joy to my heart. I’d do everything for that boy,” the paternal grandfather said later that night to a TV crew.

The boy, meanwhile, was stoic: “I’m doing better, you know, I had some anxiety but it’s getting better.”

- With files from the Chilliwack Times