Man Calls 911, Saying Girlfriend Locked Him In Storage Unit for Week; Now He Calls Fees In opposition to Her BS

Robin Deaton, 52, was arrested and is going through expenses for the tried homicide and kidnapping expenses, in keeping with the Monroe Police Division.

In a 911 name made on February 24 and launched by Union County Emergency Companies, her boyfriend, Gary Oxendine, claimed he’d been on the facility since Thursday, February 20, with none meals or water.

“I have been locked in a storage unit for a couple of week now, and I’ve simply now discovered my telephone,” Oxendine will be heard saying within the 911 name. “My girlfriend locked me in right here. She doubled locked my lock, and I do not know the way she put me in right here however she put me in right here.”

Oxendine claimed he was in unit 43, saying when questioned whether or not he wanted emergency companies, “I simply want [to get] out of right here. I simply cannot breathe. I have not had nothing to drink or something.”

Nevertheless, the person has since claimed that he fell asleep within the unit, and his girlfriend did not understand and locked the door.

In an try to clear the air — and his girlfriend of the costs leveled towards her — Oxendine advised ABC-affiliated native station WSOC that the costs are reportedly “bogus” and a mistake.

“It is only a bunch of bogus expenses. I imply she should not be up there charged with tried homicide, tried kidnapping,” Oxendine advised the station.

He claimed Deaton left to get them one thing to eat, earlier than he fell asleep within the unit. He alleged she did not see him and he did not hear her when she shouted for him. She then left and locked the door, pondering he’d gone, per the outlet.

“She thought I had gone with an ex-girlfriend. That is what all of it boils right down to, and I hadn’t,” Oxendine defined, per the station. “She stated she got here the following day however I sleep arduous and I fell asleep. I had been up working for a pair days.”

In an e-mail to PEOPLE, Monroe Police Division lieutenant and public info officer Morgan Malone stated there was “corroborating proof” towards Dean to assist the costs.

“The detectives adopted the information of the case with corroborating proof to assist the costs. The fees have been filed and the case has been turned over to the District Lawyer’s Workplace,” Malone wrote. “Sadly, it’s not unusual for a home violence sufferer to recant their preliminary testimony.”

“We imagine that she really meant for him to die in that storage unit with no meals and no water, no exterior supply of something,” Malone additionally advised FOX 59. “She knew she locked him in there and by no means went again to test on him.”

Malone advised PEOPLE on Feb. 27 that the person stated Deaton had allegedly satisfied him to crawl to the again of the storage unit to seize one thing for her, earlier than she slammed it shut and stated, “That is what you get.”

The officer stated of the case, per CBS-affiliated native station WBTV, “That is weird. In 15 years, I’ve not seen anyone who has been locked in a storage unit.”

“The storage unit was described to me as being a hoarder’s paradise,” Malone added, in keeping with the outlet. “As quickly because the officers opened up the door, issues began falling out. The additional they opened it, extra stuff fell out.”

In keeping with the outlet, Oxendine was left in full darkness within the storage unit and struggled to search out his telephone.

An incident report obtained by the outlet lists the crime as false imprisonment, although, per the outlet, detectives sought increased expenses for Deaton’s arrest warrant based mostly on the investigation.

She’s being held with out bond, with a listening to set for March 17.

If you’re experiencing home violence, name the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. The hotline is accessible 24/7 in additional than 170 languages; Calls are confidential and toll-free.