Deputies in Florida stop rape after woman pretends to order pizza while calling 9-1-1

By Olivia Lloyd

Source Merced Sun-Star (Merced, CA)

Florida authorities said a woman called 911 to order a pizza while a man held her hostage in a field.

When officers arrived, they found 27-year-old Luis Moncayo Hernandez lying on top of a woman who was 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 of the arrest, praising the woman’s quick thinking and dispatch.

In a phone call made around 4 a.m. on October 19, the woman said she “wanted to order a pizza” and was “stuck here.”

When the dispatcher tried to confirm that she knew he was calling 911, she responded that she was. She said she was injured, but the other person was unarmed.

However, she did not know what address she was calling from, and Chitwood stated it was because she and Moncayo Hernandez were in the field behind the nursery intending to have a few drinks. The woman then said Moncayo Hernandez was taking drugs, became “extremely aggressive, wouldn’t let her leave and tried to rape her,” Chitwood added.

Communications pinpointed her location and when officers arrived, they heard music playing behind the ferns, Chitwood said. Body camera footage shows officers shining a light into the grass, revealing a man lying on top of a woman.

“He’s trying to rape me. Can you help me?” The woman can be heard saying in the 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 applied for asylum in the U.S. the day before the incident. The Border Patrol assigned him a detention order, Chitwood said.

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

If you have experienced sexual violence and need someone to talk to, call the National Sexual Violence Hotline for help at 1-800-656-4673 or visit the line’s online chat.

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