MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man has been charged with an attempted kidnapping of the mayor of Memphis after he went to the mayor’s house in a gated community and was later arrested with a Taser, gloves, rope and duct tape in his vehicle, according to police.

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.

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.