NORTHAMPTON — A Worcester man is being held without right to bail for allegedly kidnapping two people and making them drive more than 70 miles to Williamsburg.

Hart Sligh, 20, pleaded not guilty in Northampton District Court Monday morning to a charge of kidnapping. A dangerousness hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

Sligh was one of four men who forced two other Worcester residents — a man and a woman — to drive to western Massachusetts to retrieve $675 from the male captive’s father.

Northampton Police arrested Sligh shortly after noon on Saturday near Interstate 91 at Exit 19, Bridge Street and Damon Road following an alert from the Massachusetts State Police for the gray Chevy Impala.

The incident began Saturday morning in Worcester when the alleged victims pulled up at a residence to drop off keys to someone they knew, according to court documents.

Four men then reportedly swarmed the man’s Impala. One of them opened the passenger door and demanded the male driver hand over $675, police said. The man had supposedly paid the driver that money in installments since May for a car but wanted the money back after the driver picked the car up from an impound lot, according to court documents.

The man tried to get the driver and his female passenger out of the car and when they would not leave told them he was “not playing around” and put a knife to the driver’s throat, according to court documents.

The driver said he would have to get the $675 from his dad in Williamsburg. The man then told two other men, including Sligh, to get into the car and make sure the driver didn’t stop anywhere, according to court documents.

When the driver called his father to alert him of the situation, the other man demanded the driver pull over and exited the car, according to court documents.

Sligh also had his bail revoked in an unrelated case in Dudley District Court.

He is charged with possession to distribute a class D drug and conspiracy to violate the drug law, according to the Dudley District Court Clerks’ Office.

Three other people were named in the Northampton police report but it was not known if any arrests had been made in Worcester in connection with the incident.

Emily Cutts can be reached at ecutts@gazettenet.com.