Rape victim found after using phone app and alligator sign to share location

Dalton Ramsey (left) was arrested after a woman he allegedly kidnapped and raped reported their location utilizing the Noonlight app and an alligator signal (Footage: FOX 5/Coweta County Sheriff’s Workplace)

A 17-year-old woman was rescued from an alleged rapist by notifying authorities utilizing an app on her smartphone and figuring out an alligator warning signal.

The sufferer met Dalton Ramsey on-line, in line with officers in Coweta County, Georgia. Ramsey reportedly supplied to drive the woman to see her boyfriend in Pennsylvania final week. Nonetheless, Ramsey as a substitute stopped the automotive at BT Brown Reservoir Park and reportedly used tape to bind her arms.

‘Someplace alongside there, their experience to Pennsylvania, they pulled off in Coweta County, and he rapes her at knife level,’ the county sheriff’s investigator Toby Nix advised FOX 5 Atlanta.

Ramsey apparently let the woman use her telephone, which she used to contact authorities on their whereabouts.

A 17-year-old woman knowledgeable her boyfriend that she noticed an alligator warning signal (Image: FOX 5)

The sufferer first advised her boyfriend, who searched on Google for an alligator signal used to warn boaters on the reservoir. The woman confirmed she noticed the signal exterior the park, which was closed.

Then the woman reportedly used the Noonlight app as Ramsey started driving once more. She wrote ‘rape’ and described the car. The app tracked her machine and alerted authorities.

Ramsey was arrested on September 6 in Habersham County and charged with kidnapping. He was extradited to Coweta County to face extra expenses, together with rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, kidnapping and possessing a knife whereas commissioning a criminal offense.

The woman has been taken again to her household, officers stated.

Dalton Ramsey is being charged with with rape, kidnapping, aggravated assault with a weapon, and possession of a knife through the fee of a criminal offense (Image: Coweta County Sheriff’s Workplace)

Surveillance footage reveals Ramsey’s car stationed exterior the park.

The Noonlight app’s web site states that its mission is ‘to guard and luxury individuals to allow them to dwell freely’.

‘What started as an app centered on serving to individuals stroll safely from level A to level B, is now a collection of emergency response APIs backing a number of the smartest dwelling, well being, and way of life merchandise within the IoT market,’ the positioning states.

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