LITTLE ROCK — Two men and a woman who police say are responsible for binding and beating three women in a Saline County home Monday have been arrested and charged, a sheriff’s office spokesman said.
Deputies charged Tameria Moore, 33, Eli Wilson, 23, and David Lee, 29, each with three counts of false imprisonment, second-degree battery and terroristic threatening Monday evening. They are being held at the Saline County jail. Moore and Lee were held in lieu of $1,000 bond each. Wilson was held in lieu of $150,000 bond.
A woman called police about 4 p.m. Monday from New Life Baptist Church in Alexander and informed them that she had just escaped from “having her wrists zip-tied and being physically attacked at a single-wide white trailer,” according to a police report.
The woman “could barely compose herself” and “was extremely hysterical,” the report said. She told a deputy that two other women were being kept at Lee’s residence at 2015 Avilla Vicentage Road in Alexander. The suspects would “beat these women to death as they had already threatened to do so,” the woman said, according to the report.
At that address, deputies reported finding two women being kept against their will. Their report stated that Moore “appeared irrationally nervous.”
One of the women had her wrists bound with duct tape, and had bruises and cuts on her face, according to the report. The other woman’s face was described as red and swollen. She said duct tape binding her wrists had been removed before deputies showed up, according to the report.
It wasn’t known how long the three women were kept and beaten or why, said Lt. Scott Courtney, a spokesman for the Saline County sheriff’s office.
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