user: A woman was held hostage, officials say. So she sent her daughter to school with an SOS note.
At about 8 a.m. Monday, a 11-year-old girl showed up to school with a handwritten note from her mother.

The note, which the girl gave to school officials, indicated that her mother needed help and that she was being held against her will in a mobile home in rural Louisiana, officials said. In the note, the woman also said she didn’t want anyone to call her.

About two hours later, sheriff’s deputies showed up at the mobile home in East Feliciana Parish, northeast of Baton Rouge.

“No one answered the door,” East Feliciana Parish Sheriff Jeff Travis said. “It was almost as if nobody was home. It was very quiet.”

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After getting a search warrant, officers went inside and found the girl’s mother and Donald Ray Guy, the 27-year-old man who they believed was holding the woman hostage.

Officers also found Guy’s mother and grandmother, who also were living in the trailer.

Guy was arrested without incident. He is being held at East Feliciana Jail.

Travis said the mobile home was owned by Guy’s family, and the woman and her daughter had been living in the trailer for the past two weeks.

“I can say that the information we have is that she wasn’t forcibly brought to that house,” Travis said. “She was adamant that she was being held and couldn’t leave.”

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Guy was charged with false imprisonment and domestic abuse battery based on the woman’s statements to investigators. Travis said the woman and her daughter, a student at East Feliciana Middle School, didn’t appear to have physical injuries. He also did not know the nature of the relationship between Guy and the woman.

Guy has other felony warrants for aggravated battery and domestic abuse battery in connection with a separate incident, authorities said. He was wanted in East Baton Rouge Parish — Travis said authorities had tried to arrest him in the past, but he always escaped.

Authorities are not releasing a copy of the note and are not disclosing the names of the woman and her daughter. Travis said he does not know whether Guy’s mother and grandmother knew that the woman was being held inside the trailer.

Guy has not appeared in court yet, authorities said. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney.

A similar incident happened in Avon Park, Fla., last year. A Pizza Hut store received an order online, and in the notes field of that order was a plea for help:

“911hostage help!” she wrote, prompting store employees to call authorities.

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Cheryl Treadway told police that her knife-wielding boyfriend, Ethan Earl Nickerson, had been holding her hostage. At one point, she persuaded Nickerson to allow her to order pizza online. Nickerson was arrested and charged.

“We’ve never seen that before,” store manager Candy Hamilton told WFLA. “I’ve been here 28 years and never, never seen nothing like that come through.”

Travis, the sheriff, shares the same sentiment about the Louisiana incident.

“Just amazing,” he said. “This doesn’t happen every day.”

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assistant: Authorities said the woman was held against her will for two weeks in a mobile home in rural Louisiana.