UPS driver helps free US woman held captive by suicidal husband

A driver of United Parcel Service (UPS) helped authorities free a woman who had been held hostage at her home by none other than her own husband.

According to a CNN report, the woman was sexually assaulted and tortured in hours long captivity in her home located in Robertsville neighborhood in US state of Missouri before SWAT ( Special Weapons and Tactics ) team freed her thanks to UPS driver.

The driver whose name was not mentioned called police after spotting “call 911”–- an emergency telephone  number intended for use in life threatening emergency circumstances –– written on a package that he had to collect from the residential address where the woman was held captive along with her three-year-old child.

James Tyler Jordan had refused to let the victim leave, punched and slapped her, forced her to strip and sexually assaulted her, according to the report.

She said her husband was holding a gun to her head and threatening to kill her, then himself, when the UPS driver arrived.

It was not clear as to how the victim managed to scribble plea for help on the package.

Citing court documents, the CNN report  said a 3-year-old child was also found locked in the home. The child was locked without food or water for 15 hours.

Commending the driver , the UPS said in a statement, "We are grateful to this UPS driver with more than a decade of service followed protocol when he saw a customer in distress and contacted authorities after he saw her message to contact 911".