Polson woman rescued after abduction
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Terrance Tyrell Edwards
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The Lake County Sheriff's Office helped rescue a 22-year-old Polson female abducted for 11 days.
“The female met Terrance Tyrell Edwards over the Internet,” Sheriff Don Bell stated in a press release.
Edwards allegedly offered the victim a well-paying job and lured her to the Missoula area. The female was abducted, held against her will, and driven hundreds of miles from home. Her cell phone was also turned off.
Family members noticed her absence and asked the Sheriff ’s Office for a welfare check. Law enforcement began looking for the missing female.
The victim was eventually able to make a phone call from a prepaid or “burner” phone to a relative.
“The mother of the missing female received a call while at the sheriff ’s office and was able to get key information on the victim’s location,” he said.
From that phone call, the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office discovered that the female was taken to Billings. The Billings Police Department was contacted and the rescue began.
Bell said the Billings Police Department rescued the female on Tuesday, Sept. 20, after she spent 11 days in captivity. Terrance Tyrell Edwards, born in 1982, is being held without bond in the Billings jail. Edwards has a 2012 felony conviction in Missoula County for promoting prostitution.
His five-year sentence had expired, according to the Montana Department of Corrections website.
