Police officers arrested a man in Memphis, Tennessee, for kidnapping after a woman left a note for employees at a KFC restaurant pleading for help.
Memphis Police Department officers responded to a KFC restaurant in the Tennessee city on Sunday evening, and an employee told officials that a woman “left a note begging for help.”
The woman who left the note was still at the restaurant with a man when police arrived. As officers “approached the couple, the man ran on foot,” the Memphis Police Department said in a statement.
“After a brief foot chase, he was apprehended and identified as Diego Glay,” police said.
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The woman told officers that Glay, her boyfriend, was holding her against her will with “physical assaults, threats and being armed with a handgun.”
She said she had attempted to leave him multiple times, but he has previously punched her in the face, taken her phone and “kept her from leaving his sight for days at a time,” police said.
Glay was arrested and is facing a misdemeanor charge for evading arrest and a felony charge for kidnapping. He is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing on June 1, according to court records.
Glay’s attorney declined to comment to USA TODAY.