More than a year after Dale Alan Miller’s body was found under a stack of concrete chunks near Lecompton, three people have been charged with kidnapping the Topeka man.

A Douglas County Sheriff’s detective and a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent on Thursday arrested Gary F. Holmes, 52, Topeka, at a north Topeka apartment, Sheriff Rick Trapp said Friday.

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Two other suspects, Curtis D. Callarman, 23, and Michael W. Reece, 33, both of Topeka, also are charged in the case. They were already in federal custody on drug charges. Holmes is in the Douglas County Jail on $50,000 bond.

Holmes and Callarman each were charged with aggravated kidnapping and conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping. Reece was charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping.

No murder charges have been filed, and Trapp wouldn’t discuss details of the case. He and officials with the KBI have said the case was being investigated as a homicide.

“The investigation is continuing and there could be more arrests,” Trapp said.

Miller’s body was found in April 2001 in a quiet corner of Douglas County off East 225 Road a quarter-mile north of North 2190 Road. Because of the body’s state of decomposition, it wasn’t identified until more than a year later.

The victim was a self-employed construction worker and a divorced father of three biological children and a stepchild.

“This is another step in a long process,” Miller’s father, Dale E. Miller, said in a telephone interview from Topeka. “This will hopefully be the final tag to the case, although I’m planning on going to the trials.”

Dale E. Miller identified Reece as his nephew but said he didn’t know the other suspects.

The court document listing the charges against Holmes said that Miller, 37, had been kidnapped sometime in September 2000 from an undisclosed residence.

According to federal court documents, Callarman is serving 46 months in prison for possession of cocaine. Reece has a charge of possession of crack cocaine pending against him. He is in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo.