A South Florida woman who was kidnapped at gunpoint on May 3 was saved by her husband due to a Bluetooth earpiece she had on, officials said.
Priscilla Cercone, 49, was sitting in her car right outside her home in Hollywood, Florida, when a man, who police later identified as 21-year-old Bernard Owens, approached her with a handgun; He pointed it at her and “ordered her to open the back door of her car or he would kill her,” according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by ABC News.
Cercone had just finished picking up her mail and decided to sit inside her vehicle to talk to her husband, using her Bluetooth device.
The affidavit stated that Cercone “feared for her life,” so when Owens demanded that she opened the door, she did just that.
He then ordered her to start driving—with the handgun pointing at her head.
When she told him she did not have any money on her, he demanded that she take him to an ATM.
Cercone’s husband was on the phone the entire time.
He quickly caught on to what was transpiring and called 911.
