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Monday morning at approximately 12:45, Kentucky State Police responded to I-65 in Bullitt County on the report of a truck driver being kidnapped.
Police began receiving calls about social media posts saying that a female truck driver, 44-year-old Helen Jones, of Anderson, California, was being held captive in the cab of her truck while she traveled on northbound I-65.
Jones posted on Facebook and Facebook Live that she was being kidnapped, saying that her abductor was asleep in the cab with hand grenades and explosives and had instructed her not to stop.
Multiple police agencies began searching for the tractor trailer and located it at the 121 mile marker in Bullitt County. Police tried to stop the vehicle at the 122 mile marker, but the truck proceeded until coming to the Fern Valley Road overpass, in Louisville, when the semi swerved off the road and struck the overpass supports, seemingly intentionally, according to police.
Authorities soon determined the truck did not contain explosives and Jones was the only person in the cab.
She was transported to University of Louisville Hospital where she is listed in stable condition.
(Photo courtesy of WAVE3.com)
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