A woman being held hostage in an apartment in the Bronx managed send a distress message through a food delivery app and could be rescued by the authorities.
—
Workers at the Chipper Truck Café on McLean Avenue in Yonkers received an order for breakfast through the GrubHub app early Sunday.
—
The order had a distress notewhere a woman asked to notify the police so that they could come and rescue her, since she was deprived of her liberty.
—
Through the note, the woman asked the staff: “! please call the police!”, y “ please don’t be obvious!”.
—
Employees alerted the authorities.
–
Cafe employees notified the authorities, who went to the apartment located in the Eastchester section of the Bronx and managed to free the victim.
—
According to police authorities and news reports, the 24-year-old woman reported that she had met her captor online, however, the man sexually assaulted her and kept her at that address against her will.
—
Restaurant tells how they helped the woman
–
On its Facebook page, the cafeteria reported what happened on June 19 when they received the order.
—
They sure never would have imagined that this would happen to them.
—
“This morning around 5am a girl was saved from a 5 hour hostage situation. She ordered a delivery through Grubhub to our restaurant and added this note. Our staff responded immediately and called the police and she was saved. I have often heard of this, but I never thought it would happen to us. Fortunately we were open and were able to help her. Many thanks to the police for their quick response.”
—
The man would only let her use her phone to order food, so she saw an opportunity to send the distress message.
—
The police arrested Kemoy Royal, 32, as the alleged perpetrator.
—
Royal was also listed by authorities as suspected of committing a sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman on June 15.
—
While the fast food app rewarded the restaurant with $5,000.
—
They break into the house and steal Rolls-Royce
—