Fla. Officers stop rape after woman pretends to order pizza on 9-1-1 call

By means of Olivia Lloyd

Source Merced Sun-Star (Merced, California)

A woman called 911 to order a pizza while 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, screaming for help, Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said Oct. 25.

Moncayo Hernandez’s attorney information was not available in Volusia County records as of Oct. 28.

Chitwood released the 911 call and body camera footage showing the arrest, while praising the woman’s quick thinking and dispatch.

In the call placed around 4 a.m. on October 19, the woman said she “would like to order a pizza” and that she was “stuck here.”

When the dispatcher tried to confirm she knew she was calling 911, she said she did. She said she was injured, but the other person was not armed.

But she didn’t know what address she was calling from, and Chitwood said it was because she and Moncayo Hernandez were in a field behind a daycare center planning to go out for drinks. The woman then said Moncayo Hernandez took drugs, “became extremely violent and wouldn’t let her go and tried to rape her,” Chitwood said.

Communications pinpointed her location and when officers arrived in the area, they heard music playing behind a boat yard, Chitwood said. Body camera footage shows officers shining a light into 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 on 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 had sought asylum in the U.S. the day before the incident. Border Patrol released a detainee for him, Chitwood said.

Volusia County is located 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 chat room.

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