A South Carolina woman escaped a would-be kidnapper in an incident caught on video, just one day after graduating high school.
According to video of the incident from ABC7, the young women managed to get help from a big-rig truck driver passing by, who saw her running in handcuffs with a car swerving across the road in an apparent effort to re-capture her.
The incident allegedly took place in Aiken County, S.C.
The truck driver, Anthony Moore, captured the incident on video, where the young woman can be seen running in handcuffs from a Cadillac.
“She said ‘he has my phone and my diploma,’” Moore said in his video. The woman went on to explain to Moore she had only graduated the day before and was walking between her parent’s houses when the man approached her, posing as law enforcement and forcing her into his car, according to Moore.
After the woman had approached Moore’s car, he says the driver of the Cadillac approached him saying he was police.
“I thought it was strange that he was in a teal green Cadillac, with a busted out window with plastic on the back of it,” Moore said.
The man left the scene after a second driver called 911. Police later identified the man as 39-year-old Jonathan Willard and arrested him for kidnapping and impersonating law enforcement.
