A 53-year-old man accused of kidnapping a woman was apprehended near Cedar City over the weekend after the victim passed a note to a witness saying she was in trouble and needed help.

A bystander helped an alleged kidnapping victim escape from her captor at a gas station in southern Utah. Epigmenio Bustillos Marquez, 53, was arrested Saturday after Iron County Sheriff's deputies were called from the Cedar Band Travel Plaza near Cedar City,

A man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping after he and his victim stopped at a Cedar City travel plaza, where the woman slipped a note to another customer,