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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:25 PM Aug 2012

Oxmoor Mall Apple Store employee foils kidnapping

Source: WDRB

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police say an alert Apple Store employee played a crucial role in saving a woman who had been kidnapped and robbed by a Louisville man.

Police say Sarver showed up at the woman's house, placed a gun to her leg and forced her to her vehicle. Investigators say once inside, he demanded -- holding her at gunpoint -- that she drive to several stores to purchase cell phones in her own name, with her own money.

After she made several purchases, police say the pair ended up at the Apple Store in Oxmoor Mall. At some point during the visit, the woman found a window of opportunity and was able to discreetely tell the store clerk that she needed help.

Police say the clerk then quietly called store security, who then contacted Louisville Metro Police. The woman was secured and police then apprehended Sarver.

Read more: http://www.wdrb.com/story/19214414/police-oxmoor-mall-apple-store-employee-foils-kidnapping

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Oxmoor Mall Apple Store employee foils kidnapping (Original Post) onehandle Aug 2012 OP
Genius! TeamPooka Aug 2012 #1
...and probably christx30 Aug 2012 #2
I'm guessing Apple Store personnel got a stern lecture after what happened mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2012 #3
It would have been much simpler to buy a few Trac Phones formercia Aug 2012 #4

christx30

(6,241 posts)
2. ...and probably
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:53 PM
Aug 2012

Charged her double what an employee at a PC store would have charged for the same life saving. Apple would call it the iRescue /joke

All joking aside, well done to this guy. I hope this woman recovers from what this horrible guy did to her.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,391 posts)
3. I'm guessing Apple Store personnel got a stern lecture after what happened
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:57 PM
Aug 2012

in 2011 in Maryland.

Grunts, screams came from behind Lululemon wall, Apple Store workers testify

By Dan Morse and Michael S. Rosenwald, Published: October 28, 2011
The Washington Post

The Apple Store employees were closing up for the night. One of them heard strange sounds from the other side of the wall: grunts, thuds, hysterical screams.

“Talk to me. Don’t do this,” a voice said. “Talk to me. What’s going on?”

formercia

(18,479 posts)
4. It would have been much simpler to buy a few Trac Phones
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 06:32 PM
Aug 2012

and pay cash, unless he was planning to resell them.

Sounds like a lot of trouble for just a few hundred the phones would be worth on the street.

Crack anyone?

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