Agent Responds to Cries of Woman; Attacker Flees
A man who stuffed a woman into a trash bin in North Hollywood during an abduction and possible robbery attempt was scared off by an Internal Revenue Service agent who heard the victim’s screams and shot at her assailant, police said.
Marcia Freedline, 44, of Van Nuys, was bruised and frightened but otherwise uninjured after the 8:15 p.m. incident Thursday at Hesby Drive and Lankershim Boulevard, Detective Mike Sullivan said. The assailant and an accomplice escaped.
Police said John Everett, a 43-year-old agent with the IRS’s criminal investigation division in Los Angeles, was conducting surveillance in the area when he heard screams coming from the parking lot of a Security Pacific bank.
“I feel he saved my life,” said Freedline. “This was so strange. I think they were up to more than just a robbery.”
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