Police have a 40-year-old man in custody in connection with the murder of a Val-des-Monts man last weekend.

Officers arrested a man around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at a hotel on Greber Boulevard in Gatineau.

Police had been searching for the victim's missing vehicle and found it near the Ritz Hotel where the arrest was made.

The man will appear in court Thursday to face charges.

The body of Richard Blanchet was found Saturday inside his home in Val-des-Monts.  His body has been sent to Montreal for an autopsy.