Gas Station Clerk Saves Teen From Kidnapper, Snapchat Leads Police To Suspect
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This true crime story reads like a movie script! A judge called the suspect in this case the “ultimate” risk to the community. On April 13th, a 16-year-old girl who had already been sexually assaulted after being abducted at gunpoint from her school bus stop, mouthed the world “help” to a gas station attendant who rushed into action. It was his brave moves along with the victim’s friends’ Snapchat app that led police straight to the teen, allowing them to arrest a suspect who already had a history of rape charges.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.6 | The crime and the rescue read like a Hollywood movie script. |
| 0:15.1 | But this is the thing I took away from it. |
| 0:18.2 | Make sure you know where your kids are at all times, no matter if it's |
| 0:24.1 | Life 360 or Snapchat. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Presents, bro. This is a |
| 0:29.4 | fascinating story that had a really happy and almost Hollywood ending, and you got a hero as a gas station |
| 0:37.3 | attendant, but parents need to listen to this one. |
| 0:40.3 | This is a story that every parent needs to hear. And today there was an update. We are recording this on |
| 0:48.0 | April 30th, the man who has been charged with the rape and kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl who was waiting |
| 0:56.9 | for her school bus at the school bus stop who was taken at gunpoint. This man was in court |
| 1:05.2 | today where a judge denied him bond and said that he was the ultimate risk to the community. |
| 1:12.0 | This man we are talking about is 48-year-old Donald James Joseph Arthur Fields. |
| 1:17.0 | And thank God for a gas station attendant and Snapchat. |
| 1:21.3 | So, Rob, we're going to walk folks through this particular crime. |
| 1:25.1 | And as horrible as it sound sound we talk about a teenage girl |
| 1:27.5 | kidnapped yes she was sexually assaulted trust us folks it does have a happy ending here this is a |
| 1:35.6 | horrific story when you hear initially those details but robs this is this is a this is a |
| 1:41.1 | of all the horrible stuff going out there and there was a horrible individual at least |
| 1:46.0 | involved in this one. It's such a reminder. There are good people out there. There are heroes. There are |
| 1:50.9 | heroes out there. And the hero of this story was a Yemeni immigrant working the register at a Detroit Sonoco gas station. |
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