Man, 56, ‘kidnapped co-worker and held her in his prison-like apartment’

Louisiana – A kidnapped woman’s dramatic escape led police to a house of horrors in New Orleans, complete with hidden compartments, false doors and cameras behind two-way mirrors.

Apartment resident Mario Perez-Roque, 56, was arrested Friday evening on charges of kidnapping one of his co-workers, a 36-year-old Cuban national he tried and failed to court.

The unnamed woman was kidnapped from her home on Martinique Avenue in New Orleans earlier that same day, and taken to Perez-Roque’s rear apartment in a shotgun home, where he held her before she was able to free herself and flee. More

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