NATCHEZ — A convicted felon has been charged with kidnapping, robbery and grand larceny by the Natchez Police Department.

Police Chief Mike Mullins said Ronald Stone, 44, of 11 Old Browns Lane, allegedly came into the house of an elderly couple in the 400 block of South Commerce Street Wednesday morning.

“(Stone) had currently been working at the house painting and doing odd jobs,” Mullins said, and had access to the house.

Mullins said Stone reportedly tied the couple to their bed, took their phones, cash and the keys to their gray 2006 Toyota Camry and left in an unknown direction.

Stone was arrested Wednesday evening after a Natchez police officer spotted him driving on Morgantown Road in the stolen vehicle.

Stone led police out to U.S. 61 North before turning around and coming back into Natchez.

Police chased him to his mother’s house on Old Browns Lane where Stone jumped out of the vehicle.

He was then apprehendend, Mullins said.

Mullins said the police only recovered the vehicle.

The couple was not injured but did have marks and bruises on their wrists from being bound.

Prior to that incident, Mullins said Stone’s mother reported at 3:40 a.m. Wednesday that Stone allegedly took a small amount of cash, an ATM card and some prescriptions for Oxycontin from her.

“He took those from her by force,” Mullins said.

Stone is being held at the Natchez Police Department without bond until arraignment.