A woman from North Carolina is sought for murder attempt after allegedly locking her boyfriend in a storage unit, where she was trapped for several days without food or water before being rescued, police said.
Robin Deaton, 52, from Matthews, North Carolina, is being sought for murder and kidnapping attempts, said the Monroe Police Department. She remains in general, a department spokesman confirmed ABC News on Wednesday.
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Her 51 -year -old boyfriend had been locked in the unit on Thursday, police said. Deaton supposedly convinced him to crawl on the back of the unit to put something, then closed it and said: “This is what you get,” according to the police.
He had no food, water or energy source, and there were two locks in the storage unit, police said.
The man called 911 on Monday and told the dispatcher that his girlfriend had locked him in his storage unit in Cooper Storage in Monroe.
“I have been locked in a storage unit for about a week, and I just found my phone,” he said in the 911 call, published by Union County Emergency Services. “My girlfriend locked me here. She doubled my lock, and I don’t know how she put me in her, but put me here.”
A woman is accused of locking her boyfriend in this storage unit in Monroe, NC
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He said he was in unit 43 and that his phone was about to die. When asked if he needed emergency services, he said: “I just need to get out of here.”
“I can’t breathe. I haven’t had anything to drink or anything,” he said.
The officers responded to the installation around 1:15 pm on Monday, according to the incident report.
The man was taken to a hospital in the area, but since then he has been discharged, Charlotte, North Carolina, ABC Wsoc’s affiliate reported.
The incident report listed the crime as false imprisonment, although the detectives sought higher charges for the arrest warrant of investigation based on the investigation, said the police spokesman.
