VANCOUVER — Months after being acquitted in a shocking mutilation and torture case, two Vancouver-area men have been arrested again and charged in another violent kidnapping.

Jesse John Margison and Troy Dax McKinnon were picked up Friday night by the Gang Task Force and charged with kidnapping for an organized crime group, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

Both Margison, 26, and McKinnon, 29, were freed last April after more than two years in jail charged with the brutal kidnapping and mutilation of Robert McMillan in July 2007.

McMillan's ear and finger were cut off, but when he was called as a Crown witness during the pair's trial last year, McMillan refused to testify, screamed profanities at the judge and said both men were innocent.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Arne Silverman cited McMillan for contempt of court and dismissed the charges against both Margison and McKinnon.

Online court records related to the new charges indicate Margison and McKinnon are to appear in Vancouver provincial court Monday.

Both men, along with co-accused Derek James Stephens, 28; and Van Van Vu, 25; are alleged to have participated in a Vancouver abduction on Nov. 23, 2011. A large police search, involving dogs and helicopters, drew spectators to the area that day.

Vu was out on bail on an assault charge at the time of the Nov. 23 incident. Stephens was also on bail on a series of gun charges laid against him in 2010.

He pleaded guilty to one of them Feb. 2 and is due to be sentenced in March.

Stephens' co-accused in the 2010 gun case was Christopher Jai Reddy, who was gunned down in Surrey, B.C., last June. The murder remains unsolved.