The attempted abduction of a woman in the parking lot of a Homewood grocery store more than 13 months ago was part of a twisted fantasy of a man who has now been indicted on three felonies in connection with the crime.

Authorities say 58-year-old Ralph Newton Black, of Birmingham, posed as a woman online. He then tried to hire someone to kidnap the woman he created, police said. Once he found someone to do so, he redirected the kidnapper to a woman he picked at random. Black planned to videotape the kidnapping.

The man who actually agreed to carry out the kidnapping had no idea what he was drawn into, and was not charged with any crime. He thought the woman being kidnapped was the person with whom he spoke with online and thought she had staged the incident herself.

The attack happened on a Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016. Homewood police were dispatched to the parking lot of Publix in the 400 block of Green Springs Highway that Sunday afternoon. Once on the scene, a woman told officers a man approached her, held her at knife-point and tried to get her to get in his vehicle. The victim refused to do as the man said and was not harmed.

Black was arrested March 4, 2016 on charges of solicitation for rape, solicitation for sodomy and attempted kidnapping. His bond is set at $450,000. He was released from jail March 23, 2016.

A Jefferson County grand jury on March 10, 2017 indicted Black on all three charges. The indictments say he unlawfully solicited the man to abduct the victim with intent to inflict physical injury or to sexually violate or abuse the victim.

Black was re-arrested Tuesday and remains in the Jefferson County Jail. A trial date has not yet been set.

Police said the investigation is ongoing, and they're trying to determine whether Black had tried this before.