Salt Lake City Police say the suspect held a woman against her will for several weeks while torturing and threatening her.
SALT LAKE CITY — A man was arrested this week on suspicion of holding a woman against her will for weeks while assaulting her and threatening her life.
Martinez answered the door, and officers said it appeared he had his hand on a gun in his sweatshirt pocket. They ordered him to raise his hands, he complied, then officers detained him and took the weapon. The woman then gave her account of what happened, saying Martinez had abused her and threatened further harm to both her and her family over a period of several weeks. She said Martinez strangled her multiple times, hit her with a belt, pointed a gun at her head and held a knife to her throat. Court documents say he even carved the number 6 into her hand with a knife, threatening that she"had 6 months to love him or be killed.
Martinez was ordered to be held without bail due to the threats he made, court records state, as well as his likelihood of fleeing. Police wrote in the report that he has another home in Arizona, where he was planning to take her before police arrived. He also has"business" in multiple other states, and he at one point stated that he is a millionaire — which police also said would enable him to flee more easily.
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