{"id":39961,"date":"2025-02-06T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/?p=39961"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:07:51","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-kidnapping-robbing-woman-he-met-online-outside-motel-6-in-brandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-kidnapping-robbing-woman-he-met-online-outside-motel-6-in-brandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for allegedly kidnapping, robbing woman he met online outside Motel 6 in Brandon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CW2FD4i183g?si=hjHwMYtb7hQZfpZT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nA man is behind bars after being accused of kidnapping and robbing a woman he had just met online. Deputies are crediting the victim\u2019s quick thinking and an app on her phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c911 do you need police, fire or medical?\u201d said an operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need police at 9942 east Adamo Drive. It\u2019s a motel 6. This guy he basically kidnapped me and put a gun to my head and robbed me of everything,\u201d said the victim.<\/p>\n<p>A frantic woman called 911 outside a Motel 6 in Brandon in January after deputies said a man she originally met online, turned out to be violent in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have him on the phone right now because I told him I went to the room to get all my money. I see him. I think i see him walking,\u201d said the woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa\u2019am I want you to stay quiet then okay,\u201d said the operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see the police,\u201d said the woman.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived they learned the woman had two cell phones. She used one to call police from the hotel and she left the other in the suspect\u2019s car, which was also connected to her Find My app.<\/p>\n<p>She also gave deputies a play-by-play of the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy told me to come hang out with him. I\u2019m not from here. We met online, right? I go to hang out with him, and literally, we\u2019re sitting in the car and everything\u2019s cool. We\u2019re getting to know each other a little bit. And he literally pulled the gun out of the middle console,\u201d explained the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018Give me everything you got\u2019. He puts it [the gun] to my head and he starts taking everything out of my pockets. He took my phone, my car keys, my watch. He took everything. And he was like, \u2018I know you have money. I know you have money.\u2019 And he pulled my room key out. He was like, \u2018So you\u2019re at a the motel 6?\u201d said the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The victim said the suspect told her to go to her motel room while staying on the phone with him.<\/p>\n<p>But she said she put him on hold, and called 911 instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe put me on the phone and muted it. He was like, \u2018You\u2019re going to go upstairs, you\u2019re going to get all the money you have.\u2019 Because I told I had a boyfriend in the room and when I got upstairs, I switched over and called 911,\u201d said the woman.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived they used the victim\u2019s Find My app connected to her second cell phone to track down the suspect, 26-year-old Elijah Silva El-Shabazz.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies followed his car until he was involved in a crash and then took him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>El-Shabazz is facing a slew of charges including armed kidnapping to commit a felony and robbery with a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is behind bars after being accused of kidnapping and robbing a woman he had just met online. Deputies are crediting the victim\u2019s quick thinking and an app on her phone. \u201c911 do you need police, fire or medical?\u201d said an operator. \u201cI need police at 9942 east Adamo Drive. It\u2019s a motel 6.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[251,89],"class_list":["post-39961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wls-news","tag-251","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/miami-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39963,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions\/39963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}