A third person is being charged in the alleged forcible confinement and sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy on Nova Scotia’s South Shore in September.

Halifax RCMP say a 63-year-old man was arrested in Fredericton, N.B., yesterday.

Court documents say John Leonard MacKean is from Lower Sackville. He is charged with sexual assault and communicating with another man for the purpose of obtaining sex from someone under 18.

MacKean’s case has been put over until Thursday so he can get a private lawyer.

The man was brought into the courthuse by an RCMP officer and not in handcuffs. The Sheriff for Lunenburg and Queens County “procedure was broken.”

His co-accused, 47-year-old David James LeBlanc, is charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement and adminstering a noxious substance.

LeBlanc was arrested in northern Ontario after a nationwide manhunt. Another co-accused, Wayne Cunningham, was found dead near where LeBlanc was taken into custody.

Charges stem from an RCMP investigation following allegations that a 16-year-old boy was abducted off the streets of Halifax and taken to a home in Upper Chelsea, N.S., where he was confined for at least two weeks. He managed to escape and make his way to a neighbour’s doorstep in chains.