A man was arrested last week in Las Vegas after offcers saw a woman mouth the words “Help me” as a vehicle drove by them.
Nathaniel Foutch-Pratt, 28, has been charged with multiple counts, including kidnapping and attempted murder, KSNV reported.
An arrest report said that officers were conducting a traffic stop shortly after 9 p.m. on February 20 when an SUV drove by.
“I observed a white female adult in the passenger seat stick her head out the window,” an officer wrote in the report. “She mouthed the words ‘HELP ME’ as the vehicle was driving away from Officers.”
The officers left the traffic stop and headed after the SUV. The driver ignored them, despite lights and sirens, and fled at a high rate of speed.
The vehicle ultimately crashed after he entered the southbound lanes of US 95 headed north. The driver refused officers’ orders to get out of the vehicle, the report said, and was seen trying to strangle the woman.
“The male can be heard on body camera yelling ‘She has to die tonight,’” according to the arrest report.
Foutch-Pratt resisted and fought the officers as they dragged him out of the vehicle and took him into custody.
After the arrest, officers learned that the two had been involved in a domestic incident at The STRAT Hotel & Casino. Further investigation revealed that they were on a road trip from Illinois to California.
The woman, whose name was not released, said that while they were at the hotel, Foutz-Pratt began acting paranoid and insisted that “she was assisting the government in spying,” the report said, according to KVVU. Hotel security briefly detained them but let them go, she said, and they went to find marijuana.
The woman they had been driving around after The STRAT incident when suddenly Foutch-Pratt “told her she needed to die,” the report said. She said he took her phone, hit her, and refused to stop, after which she began trying to signal other drivers for help.
According to court records, Fouth-Pratt was given a $50,000 bail and has a preliminary hearing set for March 12, KSNV said.
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{Featured image: Nathaniel Foutch-Pratt/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department]
