Louisville, Kentucky police rescued a woman who was found chained to a bedroom floor in a man’s house last week.
According to USA TODAY, police received 9-1-1 calls from neighbors around 7 p.m. on August 16. The callers said they heard a woman “screaming for help” from a bedroom window.
Responding officers tried to kick down the front door to enter the house, but the door was barricaded.
They eventually climbed a ladder to a second-story window where they found a woman with a chain around her neck that was “bolted to the floor with screws,” police said.
An officer found a hatchet in the home and used it to hack the chain bolted to the floor. Police used a large bolt cutter to break the chain around the woman’s neck.
The woman told police she had an argument with the man, later identified as Moises May.
As they argued, he allegedly grabbed her and held her down on the bathroom floor. He used a machete to cut off most of her hair, she told police.
He allegedly threatened to kill the woman multiple times. Then he tied a metal dog chain around her neck and bolted it to the floor. She said he took her phone so she couldn’t call for help.
She waited until he left the home, then she crawled to a window and screamed for help.
May was arrested two days after the woman was rescued, police said.
He was arraigned and charged with several felony and misdemeanor crimes, including kidnapping, assault, terroristic threats and harassment, according to court documents.
He pleaded not guilty in court on Saturday morning, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.
He is being held in jail without bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday, August 28.
Watch the news report below.
