Crime

Off-Duty Cop Credits Divine Intervention in Rescuing Kidnapped Woman

Do you believe in God?

Lt. Tommy Butler does and the Scotland County, N.C., deputy sheriff believes it was His divine intervention that helped him rescue a kidnapped woman trapped inside her abductors’ car trunk.

Butler says he was off-duty when he “heard the Lord speaking to him,” the Daily Mail reports. An unusual instinctual reaction aroused Butler when he saw a car run a stop sign, he says. Even though his shift had ended three hours earlier, he says he knew he had to pursue the car.

“I really just thought it was a going to be another stop, but then I starting getting a feeling that I needed to stop this car as quickly as possible,” he said. “Something just said, ‘Get this car stopped’, and I reckon it was the Lord speaking to me,” Butler recounts.

What ensued was a high-speed chase that reached 115mph.

When the car finally pulled off to the side of the road, the driver took off into the woods. But Butler‘s attention was drawn away from the fleeing suspect by frightened screams emanating from the vehicle’s trunk.

“I would have ran him down,” Butler told the Laurinburg Exchange. “But when you hear screaming coming from the trunk, that takes priority.”

Butler was able to free the frightened woman who called him her “guardian angel.”

The woman — whose name has been kept private for safety reasons — said she had stopped for gas when she was approached by a pregnant woman who asked for a ride. When she agreed, the woman’s boyfriend also got into the car.

Butler said the couple ordered the woman to drive them to a different location, and once they got there, they robbed her of her cell phone and the $8 she had with her, claiming they had a gun. They then forced her into the trunk, Butler said. The man dropped the pregnant woman off at one location and continued on with their victim still locked in the car’s back end.

Police later identified and arrested the couple. “We don’t know for sure what their purpose was going to be. I’m just glad we were able to intervene,” Laurinburg police Capt. Kim Monroe said.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:08pm

    Mr. Butcher, when you are in a tight spot and need help from somewhere-you-know-not-where, (I could get snotty here but God told me not to) to whom do you call out to for moral support, guidance, or a miracle?

    If you REALLY think there is no higher power than yourself, try sticking your finger in the place a lightbulb fits in a connected lamp and turn on the switch.

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  • Deutscher
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:08pm

    Sounds more like a good cop with well honed instincts going beyond the call of duty.
    Great Job!
    I doubt if there were a god, it would pick this point to intervene.

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    • parkerwon
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:22pm

      I think your Father would disagree…….why not get on your knees and ask Him?

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    • Crewbot
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:28pm

      I wonder if He intervened when your mother considered aborting you!!!

      You can’t tell me she never considered it.

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    • captac1
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:36pm

      This tells you all you need to know about Deutscher…. Isaac Deutscher – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907, Chrzanów – 19 August 1967) was a Polish-born Jewish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United …
      Early life, Poland – Move to UK and journalism … – Biographer and academic (1948 …
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Deutscher

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    • Deutscher
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:45pm

      @CREW

      Great comeback ? Stay classy.

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  • jimenycricket
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:07pm

    MRBUTCHER what if your wrong? I like my chances better than yours, I know there is a God but if I were wrong I have lost nothing. As wrong as you are, you have lost it all. How can anyone look around at this beautiful world and everything in it and believe it just happened. Life is about choices and choices have consiquences. I won’t feel sorry for you because you are in America and you fortunately have a choice. When God speaks Christians listen.

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  • My Sacred Honor
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:06pm

    *Sigh. And first for this awesome story has to be an atheist. Please ignore that folks and don’t spend this entire thread arguing with him.

    Hearing this story almost brought me to tears, as I believe in the same thing. I was an MP in the Marine Corps for 9 months or so (Fleet Assitance Program. Nevermind.) And I know cops get complacent about such things as “running a stop sign”. It happens so much that one day on base I wrote over 25 tickets parked in plain site for “California stops” as we put it, rolling through a stop sign. “Ho-hum” until you find something interresting like a revoked liscence. Other than that, it is a typical “watch for craziness, but all is well” stop.
    For a cop, who has been off duty for 3 hours to even have the inclination to stop a “stop sign” violater is amazing, and I believe him whole heartedly that he was led to pursue this.
    And I say that based on what I just said, even if I didn’t believe what I do about God.

    Semper Fi, my good man! And GREAT counter story to the horrific beating vid from Houston!

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  • Deutscher
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:04pm

    @DALE
    It is not possible to prove a negative.
    No one can prove God does not exist, ever. It is logically not possible. You can’t prove that Lord Xenu does not exist either.
    The burden of proof falls to those who believe to those who don’t.

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  • tgp42rhr
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:03pm

    As a retired Officer of the Law AND combat Vet I can tell you there IS a GOD!

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  • Richard Compton
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:00pm

    Right place, at the right time, what ever it was thank goodness she’s alive and well and better yet they caught the bad guys too! Maybe she’ll get a CWP and a gun. You can’t always count on this to trun out this well, we’ll never know what they might have had in mind for her, but it‘s a safe bet is wasn’t going to be good.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:00pm

    And, I will be praying for you, too. “When two or three are gathered together, I will grant their request.”

    I have even told by dog about God because I want him to go to Dog Heaven when his time comes. You know, the Big Kennel in the Sky.

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  • P C BE DAMNED
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:59pm

    Yes there is a God. Thats as deep an argument as I will give to a fool.

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  • Lion420
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:57pm

    Takes a real creep not to appreciate an old fashioned down home miracle.

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  • KICKILLEGALSOUT
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:57pm

    Thank God that he gave the deputy a nudge to move on this and get these sick people off the street.

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:56pm

    If God spoke to him – wonderful. If he just thinks God spoke to him – wonderful. The woman was saved – that is indeed WONDERFUL!!!!!!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:56pm

    The ACLU Will Sue him for using GOD while a Government Employee,even if he was off duty.Thank God he was looking when the car ran the light.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

      Did you notice that it was reported in the Daily Mail (uk) …. .. why didn’t the U.S. news report this I wonder? .. Because he credits God?

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  • mommy2many
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:56pm

    That cop must have read The 7. He followed his gut. God is good.

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:54pm

    Mr Butcher

    I bet $1000 that your definition of God

    is nowhere near my definition of God

    or anyone elses for that matter

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  • Old Truckers
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:53pm

    Respect your police, you may need them someday.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:53pm

    Mr. Butcher, my daddy never told me a lie. My mother — that’s a different story. There was a reason my father never told me a lie; and when he told me something, I could take it to the bank.

    When I was a kid, I asked him if he believed in God. He looked at me in disbelief and said, “Certainly I believe in God.” I asked him how he knew He was real. Daddy told me, “I am sober, aren’t I? That in itself is a miracle.” Then he asked me, “Look around — can you make a tree? (No, sir.) Can you put life into a human being? (No, sir.) Have you ever noticed the orderliness of nature? (Yes, sir.) Well, God can and does, and He did all this. And, he made you my daughter.” I figured that, since I had the best daddy in the world (in my opinion), Daddy must be right.

    I’m sober. That’s another miracle. I just came from a room full of miracles tonight.

    Showtime  
  • GONESURFING
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:52pm

    Wrong, God is alive and well and speaks to His People just not you it seems.

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  • home_of_the_brave
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:52pm

    God bless this officer! Mr. Butcher I am praying for you and I don’t mean that in a condescending way! I really am praying for you!

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:52pm

    Prove that my God doesn’t exist. Proving that He does exist is not for me to do.

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  • Dale
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:50pm

    OK MrButcher, where is your evidence? I believe I am as certain that there IS a God as you are that there is not. So where is your evidence. I have evidence, which you won’t accept, but it is stronger than you evidence that God does not exist. Some years hence, GOD: “there is not MrButcher”.

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  • Laus Deo
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:47pm

    Must‘ve been a couple 99’ers…

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  • EZDOZIT
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:46pm

    A story with a happy ending. thank God.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:14pm

      Yes .. thank GOD.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:25pm

      Thank God and this wonderful police OFFICER who saved this woman’s life!!!!

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:29am

      When you see evil, you treat it as evil. “Get behind me Satan, for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and HIM only serve”. Don’t argue with evil ones because Satan is very real and all around us. How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver. This is the day that the Lord has made, not Mohammad or any other.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:45pm

    That’s enough to scare the dog mess out of you! Praise the Lord, and may God bless Lt. Tommy Butler!

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:11pm

      Amen!
      Supposed to have been “AMEN!” but the blaze nazis condemn ALL whom post in all caps.
      CAN I HAVE HALLELUJAH!

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 4, 2011 at 11:50pm

      Amen, and I would rather respond to this post than the nonsense of the first post. I know God exists, because I seen both of my children born, looked into their eyes, and that is the only proof I need.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 2:50am

      Yeah some brainless loon hijacked the post , this was an amazing story , I’m glad that the thug was caught & thank GOD for assisting the officer & a big thanks to the officer .
      IN GOD WE TRUST .

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 10:00am

      SHOWTIME and MY SACRED HONOR, thank you both for your touching posts. God bless you.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:48am

      This was a brave man. Not just that he is in a dangerous profession and that chasing this crook could have cost him his life, he is perfectly willing to do that to protect his town. That’s brave, and I commend all peace officers as I commend all who are in or have been in our military defending freedom. Too bad there is evil in this world, but there is.

      Now, I think this peace officer is doubly brave. Why? Because he was willing to tell others about how he got nudged to first follow and then chase the crook. He knew there were Mr. Butchers and Deutschers in the world who would laugh at him and make fun of him. But, they don’t understand because it did not happen to them. This peace officer was apparently struck by the difference he felt inside, because it was not the usual. Something was different about this one instance, and he was compelled to try to put it into words, knowing it was of God. And he was brave enough to speak in spite of all the Butchers and Deutchers in this free world. You‘d think they’s praise this man’s bravery, but instead they insult his God. Why does God offend them so much? Why can’t they simply understand that millions of people believe in God, and allow them that their belief is born of an intellect that searched the scriptures for this God, and found him? Perhaps if they weren’t so prideful, stuff like this might give them pause. That it only gave them an opportunity to attack the beliefs of others indicates the pride is mighty strong in their character.

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  • airborneaz
    Posted on February 4, 2011 at 10:44pm

    Yikes!

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