MONROE, N.C. — The Monroe Police Department is searching for a woman who is accused of locking her boyfriend inside a storage unit.
According to the police report, the boyfriend told officers he and the suspect, Robin Deaton, were at his storage unit last Thursday when she said, “This is what you get” and shut the door.
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,” a man 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,” the man continued.
It all happened at Cooper Storage off Old Charlotte Highway on Feb. 20. In their report, officers described the unit as a ‘hoarder’s paradise.’
The suspect’s boyfriend was locked inside the unit for four days before he managed to find his phone and contact the police.
“That’s insane,” resident Eric McCorkle said. “He’s lucky he got out. I guess he’s lucky he had a phone in there. I would say if he didn’t have a phone in there, he would have been in big trouble.”
Police said that the man was taken to an area hospital but has since been released.
However, if the temperatures were cooler, his condition could have been much worse.
Channel 9′s Almiya White spoke with the victim’s brother, who said he was heartbroken to learn his brother was locked in such a confined space for four days, without any food or water.
Police said Deaton is wanted for attempted murder and kidnapping.
However, she has not been arrested.
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