Woman claims hostage situation on highway, flees on foot, Victoria TX
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Other CrimesA woman on Highway 87 near Victoria said she had been held hostage but refused police help and ran away on foot until deputies arrived.
Audio|Heard on: Austin Metro Area Amateur Repeaters
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01:12
Transcript:
00:00
An interesting thing happened to me yesterday coming back from Victoria though, Scott.
00:05
Driving along, there was a woman out in the middle of the road on US 87 and flagging cars down, so I stopped.
00:14
She said that she'd been taken hostage and just broke loose and needed help.
00:19
And I said, well,
00:21
let's pull over her inside and I'll wait with you until the police get here.
00:23
Oh, no, no, no, no police.
00:25
She took off in a dead run down the road.
00:28
Flagging everybody down, so I stayed in there again until the Sheriff's Department got there and left.
00:51
Yeah, I made sure my window was only rolled down about two, three inches where she couldn't get in, that the door was locked.
00:56
I wasn't going to let her get in the car.
00:59
But the tech stock showed up with two trucks, so the three of us sat there, kind of a distance watching her, and we kept traffic off of them.
01:08
So,
01:09
kept her safe until the Sheriff's Department got there.
01:11
I don't know what happened after that, I left.
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US-87, Victoria, TX
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