An alert Florida man called police after he heard his wife being kidnapped through the Bluetooth earpiece that she was wearing, a move that may have saved her life.
According to ABC News, 49-year-old Priscilla Cercone was sitting in her car and talking on the phone outside of her Hollywood home when 21-year-old Bernard Owens approached her car, pointed a handgun at her and ordered her to allow him into her car, otherwise he would kill her.
Owens then demanded that that she take him to an ATM and held the gun to her head while she drove. Cercone’s husband was on the other end of the phone and heard the incident. He asked his wife questions, but she was too scared to answer. Owens later took the phone from her.
When the call disconnected, Cercone’s husband called 911 and described what he had heard.
Cercone took Owens to a nearby bank and withdrew $400 before Owens demanded she drive back to her house.
An arrest affidavit obtained by ABC News states that because of Cercone’s husband’s phone call, police were already at her home when she arrived. When she spotted the police, she jumped out of her moving car.
Owens ran away from police as well, tossing the handgun away in the process, but he was later caught and the gun was found.
Owens was arrested and charged with false imprisonment of an adult, possession of a weapon or ammo by a convicted Florida felon, robbery with a firearm and kidnapping with intent to commit or facilitate commission of a felony.
He is being held at the Broward County Jail without bond.
Read more at ABC News.
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