A resourceful 24-year-old New York woman used a Grubhub delivery order to communicate that she was being held hostage — concerned employees notified authorities, and the woman is now free.
The note was sent to The Chipper Truck Café on Sunday. When employees began to process the order, they were alarmed to see a request to call the police.
In the “additional instructions” section of the order, the woman being held hostage wrote:
“Please call the police [he’s]…going to call me when u delivered come with the cones please don’t make it obvious.”
According to Fox News, café staff reported “the girl was saved early that morning following a five-hour-long hostage situation.”
Fox also reported that The Chipper Truck representative said:
“She ordered a delivery through Grubhub to our restaurant…Our staff responded immediately and called the police and she got saved. I’ve often heard of this happening but never thought it would happen to us. Thankfully we were open and able to help her. A big thank you to the police for their fast response.”
Café worker Alicia Berme told CBS News: “People normally put notes like, ‘Can you leave it in my driveway? Can I have extra syrup in my order? Can I have an extra soda?’ But never something like this.”
Café owner Alice Bermejo told CBS: “The message came in, and the girls read it and they called my husband to see what they should do. He told them, ‘let’s call the police, we can’t take any risk or chance.'”
A spokesperson for the New York City Police Deputy Commissioner’s Office told Fox News on Wednesday that “authorities were alerted to a rape of the victim at approximately 6:20 a.m. EDT.”
Fox reports that “just minutes later, 32-year-old Royal Kent was arrested at Pratt Avenue in the Bronx” and charged with rape, strangulation, criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment, menacing, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and sexual abuse.
NBC News reported that Royal was accused of attempted rape earlier this month.
New York City has made headlines for recording spikes in crime after enacting defunding and anti-police policies. Fox reports that the overall crime index in New York City in May increased by approximately 28% over the same month last year. Reported rapes increased by more than 37%.
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