FL - Woman claims she escaped from dog cage in backyard, Pine Hills, Aug ‘23 *arrests*

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Four people have been arrested and charged with kidnapping in Florida after a woman claimed that they held against her will in a dog cage.

According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, a woman had knocked on a neighbor’s door on Barnett Place in Pine Hills, Florida, on Saturday, pleading for help after she claimed she escaped from a cage on a nearby property.

Following an investigation, police arrested Monica Reed, 37, Damon Tromp, 19, Kevin Holmes, 21, and Cortez Marenzo Bernard Jackson, 39, on charges of armed kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Reed was also arrested on a separate aggravated battery with firearm charge for allegedly whipping the victim with a pistol, per a post from the Orange County Sheriff's Office on X (formerly Twitter).

An affidavit obtained by FN claimed that "the manner in which the firearm was used could have caused great bodily harm or permanent disfigurement.”

The affidavit alleged, per the outlet, that the victim was forced into a car while at gunpoint and had her hands tied with a chord. Police then claimed that her hands and feet were then bound together with duct tape and her mouth was also taped shut. She was then allegedly kept in a dog cage in Reed’s backyard.

4 Charged After Florida Woman Claims She Was Kidnapped and Held in Dog Cage

Four suspects were arrested and charged by the Orange County Sheriff's Office after a woman claimed she was kidnapped by them and held in a dog cage

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On Sunday, investigators said 37-year-old Monica Latresis Reed, 19-year-old Damon Andrew Tromp, 21-year-old Kevin Rudolph Holmes, and 39-year-old Cortez Marenso Bernard Jackson were taken into custody.

Court documents claim the suspects worked together to tie the victim’s hands and force her into a car while threatening her with a gun.
4 people accused of abducting, beating and caging woman in Orange County (these folks have quite a record of previous run ins with the law)

The suspects took the woman to a shed behind a home and stuck her inside a dog cage, the affidavit said. The motive for the kidnapping was to obtain information about a “potential stolen item” at her home, deputies said. The affidavit did not detail how she was able to escape.
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All four are at the Orange County Jail without bond.
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“The manner in which the firearm was used could have caused great bodily harm or permanent disfigurement,” according to a copy of the arrest affidavit

The affidavit said Reed and the three others “did forcibly confine, abduct or imprison the victim against their will by for the purpose of inflicting bodily harm or terrorizing the victim.”

“This was done for the defendant to obtain information from the victim, namely the victim’s address, in regard to a potential stolen item,” the affidavit said.

The victim is said to have been forced at gunpoint inside a vehicle where her hands were tied with a cord.
hands were tied with a cord.

Kevin Holmes, 21, and Damon Tromp, 19, were arrested after a woman escaped captivity in a dog cage.Orange County Sheriffs OfficeMonica Latresis Reed, 37, Cortez Jackson, 39, also were arrested.

The suspects allegedly duct taped the victim’s hands and feet together and her mouth shut. Jackson, Holmes and Trump allegedly further helped to physically restrain the victim inside the car when she attempted to escape. She was then kept in a dog cage in Reed’s backyard, the affidavit says.

The victim somehow managed to escape. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were dispatched Saturday afternoon after the woman knocked on a door on Barnett Place in Pine Hills, Florida, pleading for help and saying she had just escaped after being held against

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