A 911 call to “order a pizza” saves a woman from her attacker

PEARSON, FL. A Florida woman’s call for help may have sounded like a pizza order, but it was actually a plea for help, deputies say.

According to the post on Volusia County Sheriff’s Facebook pagetheir 911 center received a call from a woman ordering pizza around 4 a.m. on Oct. 19.

However, according to people’s deputies, the dispatcher quickly realized that the subscriber was really in danger.

“Our communications officers were able to triangulate her phone because she couldn’t give us an address where she was because she was in a field in Pearson, Florida,” said Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

The sheriff said the caller was able to tell the operator she was being held by an unarmed person. According to these coordinates, deputies were sent to the scene.

“Deputies went out on foot and began a search,” Chitwood said on Facebook. “Eventually they heard loud music coming from the field. When they got closer to the sound, they found a male on top of a screaming female.”

On the deputy’s camera video, a woman could be heard screaming for help.

– He is trying to rape me! the victim could be heard screaming.

Arriving deputies quickly handcuffed the suspect and assured the woman: “We are here, we are here.”

“Thank God. Thank God,” the woman can be heard telling law enforcement officers. “He tried to rape me.”

The sheriff said the woman knew her attacker, that they had gone to the field to have a couple of drinks and that was all there was to it.

“However, during that walk, (the suspect) had taken cocaine and she said … he became extremely violent, wouldn’t let her go and attempted to rape her,” Chitwood said.

The sheriff praised his deputies for the arrest and the woman for her quick thinking in disguising her 911 call.

“I can’t say enough about the great work shown in this video and the smart thinking of this victim who found a way to call for help,” Chitwood said.

The sheriff’s office said the suspect, 27-year-old Luis Diego Hernandez-Moncayo, is in the U.S. illegally and had reportedly just applied for asylum the day before it happened.

Hernandez-Moncayo is in jail and faces charges of attempted sexual assault, battery by strangulation and unlawful imprisonment.