MONROE, N.C. — A woman accused of locking her boyfriend inside a Monroe storage unit for days was arrested this week, according to jail records.
Robin Deaton was booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail around 1 a.m. Thursday on attempted murder and kidnapping charges. Records say she was being held on a $40,000 bond.
As his girlfriend faces serious charges, Gary Oxendine told Channel 9′s Eli Brand this is all a mistake.
“She did not lure me into the back of a unit for nothing. All this is just a bunch of bull crap,” Oxendine said.
He made the claims to Channel 9 just hours after Deaton was arrested.
“They need to get their stuff right. It’s just a bunch of bogus charges. I mean she shouldn’t be up there charged with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping,” Oxendine said.
Oxendine said the course of events did start the way police claim.
He said both he and Deaton were at the Cooper Storage Unit on Old Charlotte Road in Monroe on Feb. 20.
Oxendine said at some point Deaton left to get the couple something to eat and while she was gone, he fell asleep in the unit.
He said when Deaton came back, she yelled for him but he didn’t hear her and that’s when she locked the unit, assuming he’d left.
When asked why he thinks she didn’t come back for him after, Oxendine said, “She thought I had gone with an ex-girlfriend. That’s what it all boils down to, and I hadn’t. She said she came the next day but I sleep hard and I fell asleep. I had been up working for a couple days.”
Oxendine said he got out of the unit days later after he called 911 to tell them he was stuck.
Channel 9 obtained a 911 call that was made.
“I don’t know how she put me in here, but she put me in here,” Oxendine told 911 dispatch. “I just now found my phone in the storage unit, and I’ve been in here since last week.”
“She took a lock, and my lock, and I don’t know how. She put me in here,” he continued.
Oxendine said he called 911 instead of Deaton because he had no service in the unit and the only call he could get to go through was to emergency services.
In the report from Monroe police, officers claim things went differently.
They said Oxendine told them Deaton shut the door on him after saying, “This is what you get.” Oxendine said that is false.
We reached back out to Monroe police for an updated statement after Oxendine went there to try and get Deaton released Thursday morning.
In a statement, the Monroe Police Department said:
“Detectives have followed the facts of the case with corroborating evidence to support charging Deaton with kidnapping and attempted murder. The charges have been filed and the case has been turned over to the Union County District Attorney’s Office.”
Oxendine said he’s sticking to his story: “If they want to trade me for her, I’ll go in there and sit. Just whatever, she needs to get out. She’s got two kids. I mean it’s just a bunch of bull-crap.”
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