Bank employees in
Lackawanna County used hold-up alarms to get help for a woman who police say had been kidnapped.
According to police, Wilson Medina-Garcia held a woman captive since Tuesday afternoon.
Then just after noon, he took the woman to the PNC Bank in Carbondale and ordered her to take out a $5,000 loan.
Court papers show that the woman asked a bank employee for a "help" loan, and that's when an employee hit the alarm.
The employees understood that she needed help and set off the silent alarm usually used in the event of a holdup.
Carbondale police soon arrived to the bank and arrested Medina-Garcia at the scene.
Following the incident at the bank, Carbondale police went to the apartment where the man had allegedly been holding the woman.
They found the lock on the bedroom door, the broken cell phone, and a bucket that he allegedly had been making her use to go to the bathroom.
Mediana-Garcia was charged with kidnapping, unlawful restraint, and terroristic threats.
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