After a Texas woman met a man on the dating and networking app Bumble and started up a relationship with him, the pair agreed to meet for what she thought was a date at his apartment.
The woman’s date, 21-year-old Zachary Kent Mills, drove her to his place in Spring, Texas, on Christmas Eve, according to a court document.
Once they got there, Mills tried to have sex with her, but she denied the advances, the document says.
The woman said she was forced to stay at the apartment for five days before she escaped.
Authorities in Harris County, Texas, arrested Mills on December 30, charging him with first-degree aggravated kidnapping, Constable Mark Herman announced on social media.
Mills’s attorney, Chris Denuna, told The Washington Post that his client pleaded not guilty on Tuesday. Denuna called the allegations “egregious.”
“These are allegations,” he added. “Our constitution affords everybody due process, which means he’s presumed innocent.”
Bumble did not respond to a request from The Post but said in a statement to KPRC it was “shocked and saddened” to hear about the incident.
Source: msn.com
