Friend’s 911 call helps Martin County law enforcement rescue kidnapped woman

By News Staff on Thursday, July 2, 2026
  • Oscar Perez, 35, is charged with aggravated kidnapping causing bodily injury and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the June 6 assault and kidnapping of his girlfriend in Martin County. Booking photo courtesy of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. (This photo has been digitally enhanced)
    Oscar Perez, 35, is charged with aggravated kidnapping causing bodily injury and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the June 6 assault and kidnapping of his girlfriend in Martin County. Booking photo courtesy of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. (This photo has been digitally enhanced)

    MARTIN COUNTY - A 911 call, a cellphone tracking app and the swift response of Martin County sheriff’s deputies and a Stanton police officer helped save a woman’s life after investigators say her boyfriend kidnapped her, beat and choked her, repeatedly threatened to kill her and fled with her in his pickup.

    “We have every reason to believe that wherever he was going, once he got where he was going,…