Woman Held Hostage Uses Pizza Hutt App To Plea For Help

A dangerous hostage situation was thwarted after a Florida woman delivered a plea for help in the delivery instructions section of her online pizza order.

Police have rescued a mother of three after she was held at knife point by her drugged up boyfriend through the Pizza Hutt delivery service. 

Cheryl Treadway was being held against her will after boyfriend Ethan Nickerson refused to let her leave the house or use a phone. She finally convinced him to let her order food with his phone via the Pizza Hutt app.

Staff at the branch recognised the name as a usual customer and immediately called the police.  

"We've never seen that before," restaurant manager Candy Hamilton said.

"I’ve been here 28 years and never, never seen nothing like that come through."

Cheryl fled the home holding a baby in her arms and telling the police her boyfriend was inside with a knife. 

Initially Nickerson refused leaving the house as he didn't want to go to jail. The police have confirmed he was high on crystal meth at the time. 

 "If I'm standing there with a knife in my hand, sharpening it, and looking at you in a menacing way and make a statement that, 'I'm going to kill you,' and I've already done some violence to you, ya know how are you going to take that message?" Lieutenant Chris Ludden explained.