Restaurant chef becomes a hero in Hawaii
Girl (15) kidnapped on the beach – with a flash of inspiration she escapes her captor
The day following the kidnapping, Mikella escaped from her captor.
Sep 19, 2022 @ 8:56am
By doing the right thing at the right moment, a 15-year-old girl escaped her captor in Hawaii. She convinced the perpetrator to take her to a restaurant to eat, as reported by the British “Sun”. She managed to escape and the kidnapper was arrested.
Kidnapper forced 15-year-old girl to tie up boyfriend
Mikella Debina is kidnapped on Friday while visiting a beach on the main Big Island with her boyfriend. The girl’s aunt tells US media that the perpetrator forced Mikella to tie up her boyfriend and blindfold him. Then he kidnapped the 15-year-old.
Hawaii: Restaurant owner recognized young people from missing persons report
The next day, the kidnapper takes Mikella to dinner at Cafe Pesto in the city of Hilo. The 15-year-old provokes an argument, which calls the attentive restaurant owner into action. “I realized something was wrong,” Bridge Hartman told Hawaii News Now.
Then he realizes that he is looking at the girl he knows from a missing person report by the police. “I screamed, ‘There’s the girl. That’s her,'” he recalls.
Kidnapper claimed Mikella Debina was his daughter
The kidnapper lets go of the teenager for a brief moment, and Hartman seizes the moment. “She managed to escape him, I sent her to the back of our restaurant,” he says. The kidnapper claims Mikella is his daughter, but he can’t get away with that. “She yelled, ‘He kidnapped me, he kidnapped me,'” says Bridge Hartman. Police arrested the 52-year-old man.
After almost 20 hours, the teenager’s nightmare is over. Mikella’s mother is aware of who she owes the happy ending to the kidnapping: restaurant owner Bridge Hartman is a true hero, she says. (bst)
