Police say a man has been charged with an attempted kidnapping of the mayor of Memphis after he went to the mayor’s house over the weekend and was later arrested with a taser, gloves, rope and duct ta

Trenton Abston, 25, was charged with attempted kidnapping after police said he scaled a wall to approach Memphis Mayor Paul Young’s home while armed with a Taser.

Memphis police and the mayor said security video shows the man scaling a wall to a subdivision and then walking directly to the mayor's home.