Hero city worker risks life, saves 10-year-old girl from sex predator

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Two Louisiana hero workers helped save a young girl from a registered sex offender. Sanitation worker Dion Merrick called police after he noticed a car matching the description and license plate of a vehicle listed in the AMBER Alert. The silver sedan was parked in a secluded field , but still visible from the road where he was working,. When police arrived, they found the 10-year-old girl inside the vehicle with a 33-year-old sex offender. Nancy Grace speaks with Dion Merrick.

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0:00.0	Hi guys, Nancy Grace here crime online.com and crime stories at Fox Nation and Series
0:19.6	XM 111.
0:20.6	You know, it's very rare that we have a truly happy ending.
0:26.9	But today because of a good Samaritan, a hero who intervened a little 10 year old girl
0:36.3	kidnapped by a registered sex offender has been saved.
0:42.8	Listen, I was on my trash rub.
0:45.6	I just seen this great call, parked in the field.
0:48.0	There was a dude with a little tin your god, just saved that little girl life, bro.
0:52.9	I just saved that little girl life, bro.
0:54.4	Thank God, bro.
0:55.4	They got him now with me that hero, Dion Merrick.
1:00.4	Mr. Merrick, thank you for being with us.
1:02.2	Thank you for having me on.
1:03.6	Oh, it's my pleasure and honor to speak to you.
1:09.0	Tell me what happened that day.
1:11.1	It was a day like I never forget.
1:14.2	I was on my trash rub just picking up trash and I noticed a silver knee-sounding car.
1:25.4	It was parked off in the field.
1:27.8	And that morning, around 130, I got an ambulance over my phone showing the description of the
1:33.5	car, the suspect, and the victim.
1:36.9	So I noticed the car and I told my hopper that's the guy who rides with me.
1:43.7	I said, that's the car that the suspect was in because it's silver and it's knee-sounding
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