Four people have been arrested and charged with kidnapping in Florida after a woman claimed that they held against her will in a dog cage.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, a woman had knocked on a neighbor’s door on Barnett Place in Pine Hills, Florida, on Saturday, pleading for help after she claimed she escaped from a cage on a nearby property.
Following an investigation, police arrested 37-year-old Monica Reed, 19-year-old Damon Tromp, 21-year-old Kevin Holmes, and 39-year-old Cortez Marenzo Bernard Jackson on charges of armed kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Reed was also arrested on a separate aggravated battery with firearm charge for allegedly whipping the victim with a pistol, per a post from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on X (formerly Twitter).
An affidavit claimed that “the manner in which the firearm was used could have caused great bodily harm or permanent disfigurement.”
The affidavit alleged, per the outlet, that the victim was forced into a car while at gunpoint and had her hands tied with a chord. Police then claimed that her hands and feet were then bound together with duct tape and her mouth was also taped shut. She was then allegedly kept in a dog cage in Reed’s backyard.
The affidavit alleged that the suspects had been trying to “obtain information” including the woman’s address in regards to a “potential stolen item.”
In trying to obtain that information the suspects “did forcibly confine, abduct or imprison the victim against their will by for the purpose of inflicting bodily harm or terrorizing the victim,” the affidavit claimed.
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