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Video: Woman calls 911 pretending to order pizza, Fla. officers find man trying to assault her

When dispatch asked her to confirm she knew she was calling 911, she said she did; she said she was hurt, but the other person wasn’t armed.

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        By Olivia Lloyd
        The Charlotte Observer

        VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — A woman called 911 to order a pizza as a man held her hostage in a field, Florida authorities said.

        When deputies arrived, they found 27-year-old Luis Moncayo Hernandez on top of the woman, who was yelling for help, Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said Oct. 25.

        Moncayo Hernandez’s attorney’s information wasn’t available in Volusia County records Oct. 28.

        Chitwood released the 911 call and body camera footage showing the arrest, as he commended the quick thinking of the woman and dispatch.

        In the call placed at about 4 a.m. Oct. 19, the woman said she would “like to order a pizza” and was “stuck in here.”

        When dispatch tried to confirm she knew she was calling 911, she said she did. She said she was hurt, but the other person wasn’t armed.

        But she didn’t know what address she was calling from, and Chitwood said that’s because she and Moncayo Hernandez were in a field behind a nursery with the intention of having a couple of drinks. Then, the woman said Moncayo Hernandez did drugs, became “extremely violent and wouldn’t let her go and tried to rape her,” Chitwood said.

        Communications triangulated her location, and when deputies arrived in the area, they heard music playing behind a fernery, Chitwood said. Body camera footage shows deputies shining a light in the grass, revealing a man on top of a woman.

        “He’s trying to rape me, can you help me?” the woman is heard saying in body camera footage.

        Moncayo Hernandez was arrested and charged with attempted sexual battery, battery by strangulation and false imprisonment, Volusia County records show.

        The sheriff said Moncayo Hernandez applied for asylum in the U.S. the day before the incident. Border Patrol has issued a detainer for him, Chitwood said.

        Volusia County is on Florida’s Atlantic Coast and includes the Daytona Beach metropolitan area.

        If you have experienced sexual assault and need someone to talk to, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline for support at 1-800-656-4673 or visit the hotline’s online chatroom.

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