NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A waitress is speaking out after she was kidnapped by two customers accused of skipping out on their bill at a Northwest Miami-Dade restaurant.
The incident happened at La Gran Parada Dominicana, off Northwest 32nd Avenue and 75th Street, early Monday morning.
The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described how she escaped her alleged kidnappers.
“I don’t even tell my family,” she said.
She said the two men forced her into a car after she approached them for not paying the bill.
“It’s just like somebody pulled me in the car, and the car just started running,” she said. “I tell them, ‘Turn around and drop me off.'”
The victim said the duo drove around a few times and would not let her out.
She said she called 911 trying to get help, told the dispatcher where they were turning, and at that point, she said one of the men threatened to hit her with a beer bottle.
“I grabbed him,” she said. “I pulled his T-shirt on top of the head, and I grabbed him, and I bite him. I bite him in the back.”
The only thing she could think of was her 6-year-old child while she remained in the car for 10 minutes.
The victim said she remembered seeing officers and somehow managed to escape from her alleged kidnappers.
“I have one thing in my mind, ‘Please, I don’t want to die today because I don’t want to leave my son behind. I don’t want to die,'” she said. “They even see the police car behind, and they were driving around, go to circle and driving around and go to circle. Just stop. When they stop, I just run off the car and go to the police officer.”
The victim said she’s just happy to be alive.
“I feel relieved,” she said. “I said, ‘Thank God I’m safe right now.'”
The victim said she began working at the restaurant three to four weeks before the incident occurred.
Both men were arrested and charged with one count of kidnapping. They are being held without bond.
7News reached out to the family members of one of the alleged kidnappers, and they did not want to comment.
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