A man from Texas has been charged with kidnapping after allegedly holding a woman captive in a trailer with bars on the windows and a padlock so strong that rescuers had to use power tools to break through.
Abraham Bravo Segura, 42, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with restraining the woman by secreting and holding her in a place where she was not likely to be found.
The victim, whose identity has not been released, called for help from a phone inside the mobile home in Houston while Segura was at work. She reportedly told the Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies that Segura held her at gunpoint and threatened to kill her.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News, there were burglar bars on the windows and a padlock that firefighters attempted to open with a bolt cutter but were unable to do so.
The fire department eventually had to use power tools to cut through the bars in order to enter the trailer and rescue the woman. Three handguns were found inside the trailer, the court documents claim.
Segura remains in custody at the Harris County Jail on a $150,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.
At Segura’s first court appearance on Thursday, a prosecutor argued that he had kidnapped the woman and kept her locked in the trailer for four years.
The prosecutor added that all the exits to the trailer were blocked. Segura tried to defend himself, but the hearing officer told the court that they were not going to argue the facts of the case that day. Segura’s friend, Auseilsaul Contreras, told KTRK that his friend was innocent.
Segura, who the public defender described as a barber and tattoo artist, has one prior conviction for misdemeanor marijuana possession in 2006.
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