In what police are calling a "bizarre" case, an Ogden man has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped his brand-new co-worker.

The 41-year-old man was training a temporary worker at commercial baking company H.C. Brill in Pleasant View, said Police Chief Scott Jackson. He suggested they take a break about 4 p.m. Monday, two hours after the start of his shift, and drove the 21-year-old Roy man to a nearby gas station. They both got sodas, but instead of heading back to work, the older man directed his car to the highway.

He drove north on Interstate 15, starting an increasingly strange conversation about problems in his life and with his family, Jackson said. He refused to stop when the 21-year-old asked and instead sped up.

After about an hour, he stopped the car to allow the younger man to go to the bathroom at an A&W restaurant in Logan. The passenger ran inside, crying and upset, and told staff he had been kidnapped. The driver circled the restaurant and drove away before police arrived, Jackson said.

He was stopped in Preston, Idaho, for pumping a tank of gas and leaving without paying, but Preston police decided not to hold him, even after talking to investigating officers in Logan. Cache County sheriff's deputies caught him about 11 p.m. as he passed back into Utah and arrested him on suspicion of kidnapping. Police don't know why he took the 21-year-old, but he did not threaten or harm the younger man. Family members told police that he had had previous "similar mental health issues," Jackson said.

"It obviously fits the elements of a kidnapping," Jackson said. "As far as to the level, it would have been more of a lower-level-type kidnapping."