One of the men charged with the forcible confinement and sexual assault of a 16-year-old Nova Scotia boy has been arrested in Ontario.

The friends and family of the men are glad David James LeBlanc, 47, has been caught, but they’re still urging Wayne Alan Cunningham, 31, to turn himself in.

Anna LeBlanc says she learned of her uncle’s arrest Monday morning.

“I’m kind of happy, but I still say he should have gave himself up a long while ago,” says LeBlanc’s niece “So that way this 16-year-old can finally be at rest and have his mind all eased.”

The RCMP’s Southwest Nova Major Crimes Unit alleges that the boy was taken to a home in Upper Chelsea, N.S., held captive and sexually assaulted for 10 to 14 days.

Police say that the boy managed to escape and ran to a nearby home for help. Alice Arnold, the home’s resident, told CTV Atlantic last week that she called police after a teenager chained at his ankles and wrists knocked on her door and asked for help.

Arnold said he was barefoot and wore only a hat and jacket -- wearing nothing below the waist.

Arnold said she called 911 but the boy ran off. Officers found the teenager at a nearby home.

According to court documents filed by police last week, the boy was abducted while sleeping on the streets of Halifax.

He woke up in the back of a van and was driven to a residence where two men held him captive and sexually assaulted him over several days.

The court documents also allege that the teenager overheard his captors discussing a plan to sell him on the black market.

Nova Scotia police announced last week that Leblanc and Cunningham were believed to be heading for Ontario, sparking a nationwide manhunt for the pair.

Investigators in Longlac, Ont., a community near Thunder Bay, say they received a report on Sunday of a suspicious male in distress, and identified the suspect as Leblanc.

OPP Staff Sgt. Carl Pettigrew said officers were alerted to a man wandering along the road without shoes and wearing only light clothing in near-freezing weather.

"He appeared to be having the effects of being in the elements, not dressed for the conditions, suffering somewhat from exposure," Pettigrew told The Canadian Press on Monday.

Leblanc will appear before video court on Monday.

In LeBlanc’s hometown of Liverpool, his arrest is all anyone is talking about.

“I’m sure glad to hear that,” says area resident David Craig.

“Thank God they got him,” says LeBlanc’s former neighbour, Connie Craig. “Now they’ve just got to get Wayne.”

Cunningham, LeBlanc’s partner of 11 years, is still at large but his parents are hoping that will soon change.

“Wayne, stop and give yourself up,” they said in a statement to CTV News. “They’ll get you in the end. They’ve already got David.”

LeBlanc’s mother says police haven’t been in touch with her, but she also admits she has stopped answering her phone. She says she has no plans to attend court when her son returns to Nova Scotia.

Police say that will take at least a few days, depending on LeBlanc’s medical condition.

Meanwhile, they believe Cunningham may be headed for Calgary.

“He might be hard to catch because he can change himself. He can look like a girl,” says Craig. “You’d never know the difference because I seen him dressed like a girl and I thought it was a girl.”

Anna LeBlanc says she considered Cunningham her uncle too. She’s also urging him to turn himself in.

“You can only go so far,” she says. “Sooner or later you’re going to get caught, so the best thing to do is turn yourself in and deal with whatever comes your way.”

Anyone with information on Cunningham’s whereabouts is being urged to contact police.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Kayla Hounsell and CTVNews.ca