Madison Meeks

Editor-in-Chief

Mvm7037@psu.edu

LOUIS, MISSOURI – St. Louis police received an odd call from a hotel. This phone call, which was called ‘bizzare’ by police, would result in two women being rescued from their kidnappers.

Hotel staff were contacted by two women, who were ages 21 and 36, and pleading that they help them. When the women’s captors left the room, the hotel staff then called the police.

According to Fox News, the women were captured for 10 days which had started as a moving job that the captors claimed that the women would help them with. The women claim that the suspects took them from Florida to Atlanta, Georgia and then relocated them to St. Louis.

According to police, there were three suspects involved in the kidnappings. When the captors had left them at the hotel, the women seized the opportunity to get help. The women told police that after they were taken to St. Louis that they were scared of where they would go next.

Sargent Charles Wall spoke to the public about the case. He stated during a  press conference that the women were told they were not going to be allowed to leave once they got to Atlanta with the captors .

How long the women were staying in the St. Louis Hampton Inn hotel has not been revealed by police.

One suspect, Nikki Rebarcak, was arrested at the scene when hotel staff told the police that she was in the back of the building. Rebarcak was charged with two counts of kidnapping and then was released. But the two other suspects are still at large.

Police have stated that they fear that the women were going to be trafficked in St.Louis and fear that there is a trafficking ring at large.

According to Fox News, the officers are working with federal law enforcement to figure out if this case is part of a larger criminal network. Police have now identified one of the other remaining suspects and are actively searching for him.