LEWISTON — A third suspect has been arrested in connection with what police described as a kidnapping and assault on Pine Street on Monday afternoon.

Nicholas Coy, 31, of Yarmouth was arrested Wednesday on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, criminal restraint and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.

Coy has a long criminal history in Lewiston that includes gun possession and robbery. He was arrested earlier in the year on a charge of arson in connection with a fire on Grove Street in December.

After making bail on that charge, Coy has eluded police until he was located and arrested Wednesday.

Police say Coy was one of three people who lured a 37-year-old man to an apartment at 73 Pine St. and then beat him, burned him and threatened him with a gun.

On Tuesday, police arrested Zachery “Pee Wee” Paradis, 44, and Jennifer Dionne, 42, charging each with kidnapping, elevated aggravated assault, aggravated assault and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.

Police said that evidence found at the scene indicated that the victim had been tied up before he was beaten and burned.

Paradis, too, has a long criminal history in the area and was released from federal prison in March.

In 2022, he was sentenced to 51 months in prison on gun and drug charges. He was released from federal prison March 16.

In 2017, Paradis was charged with elevated aggravated assault and being a felon in possession of a firearm after a man was shot in the stomach on Holland Street in Lewiston. The charges were later dismissed.

Paradis and Coy remained at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn on Wednesday night while Dionne had been released.

The victim of the alleged assault has not been identified. He was treated at a hospital for injuries described as non-life-threatening.