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

Robin Deaton, 52, was arrested and is going through prices for the tried homicide and kidnapping prices, in line 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 cellphone,” Oxendine might be heard saying within the 911 name. “My girlfriend locked me in right here. She doubled locked my lock, and I do not understand how 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 fees leveled in opposition to her — Oxendine instructed ABC-affiliated native station WSOC that the fees are reportedly “bogus” and a mistake.

“It is only a bunch of bogus prices. I imply she should not be up there charged with tried homicide, tried kidnapping,” Oxendine instructed 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, considering he’d gone, per the outlet.

“She thought I had gone with an ex-girlfriend. That is what all of it boils all the way down to, and I hadn’t,” Oxendine defined, per the station. “She mentioned 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 mentioned there was “corroborating proof” in opposition to Dean to help the fees.

“The detectives adopted the details of the case with corroborating proof to help the fees. The costs 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 actually supposed for him to die in that storage unit with no meals and no water, no outdoors supply of something,” Malone additionally instructed FOX 59. “She knew she locked him in there and by no means went again to verify on him.”

Malone instructed PEOPLE on Feb. 27 that the person mentioned 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 mentioned, “That is what you get.”

The officer mentioned 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 line 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 response to the outlet, Oxendine was left in full darkness within the storage unit and struggled to seek out his cellphone.

An incident report obtained by the outlet lists the crime as false imprisonment, although, per the outlet, detectives sought larger prices for Deaton’s arrest warrant primarily based 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 on the market 24/7 in additional than 170 languages; Calls are confidential and toll-free.