Louisville Metro Police officers climbed a ladder and rescued a woman who was chained to the floor after neighbors called when they heard her desperately calling out for help.
The department released body camera footage showing officers arriving at the home on August 16 to find the windows and doors barricaded, leaving only the upstairs window open. Borrowing a ladder from a neighbor, they climbed up and found the sobbing woman with a chain around her neck, and the chain was bolted to the floor.
Officers hacked the chain from the floor with a hatchet and brought the woman downstairs, where firefighters used bolt cutters to remove the chain from her neck.
Two days later, officers arrested Moises May, 36, charging him with multiple counts, including kidnapping, intimidating a participant in a legal process, wanton endangerment, assault, terroristic threatening, and harassment, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
Arrest documents say that May and the woman, identified as Jonna Wilson, were arguing several days earlier when May reportedly grabbed Wilson, holding her to the bathroom floor “while he used a machete to cut off a majority of her hair. He allegedly “slapped the victim around” before she fled the house.
Wilson later returned to the home to pick up her belongings, where May reportedly threatened to kill her. Then he tied the chain around her neck and bolted it to the floor and took her cell phone so she couldn’t call for help.
“You’re gonna get it tonight,” he reportedly told her before he left with the key to the MasterLock on the chain and her phone, WAVE reported. I told you the next time you leave and don’t come home, I’d kill you.”
Wilson reportedly broke out the upstairs window and began calling for help, alerting bystanders below.
Police said that May “manifested an extreme indifference to the value of human life,” according to the Courier-Journal.
The suspect pleaded not guilty in court Saturday morning and is due back in court on Monday. He’s being held on a $100,000 bond, WAVE said.
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[Featured image: Louisville Metro Police Department]
