Nightmarish moment fake police officer tried to abduct woman he saw walking along quiet woodland road

A truck driver’s dashboard camera captured the moment a young woman escaped abduction from a man pretending to be a police officer.

Jonathan Willard, 39, was arrested and charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer and kidnapping after the unnamed girl fled from his vehicle in South Carolina on Friday.

The young woman graduated from high school on Thursday and had spent the night at her father’s house, according to the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office.

She told police that she was walking to her mother’s house the next morning when Willard allegedly approached her, told her he was a cop, and handcuffed her before putting her in the back seat of his car.

Truck driver Anthony Moore, 53, was driving along a rural road near the border with Georgia when the girl jumped out of Willard’s vehicle and ran across the pavement begging for help.

‘She would run on one side of the road, he’d try to run her over, then she’d run to the other side, and he’d try to run her over there,’ Moore told WRDW.

When the young woman made it to Moore’s vehicle, he said, ‘She says, “Help me, help me, he’s trying to kidnap me.”‘

Moore, who is also a pastor at Amazing Grace Ministries, said the man claimed to be a law enforcement officer.

A young woman who just graduated from high school escaped abduction from a man who was pretending to be a police officer in South Carolina

Jonathan Willard, 39, was arrested and charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer and kidnapping after the unnamed girl fled from his vehicle

‘She jumped in my car and said, “No, he is not. He tried to kidnap me, sir,”‘ he said.

Another driver, identified as Glen, also stopped to help and noticed the woman was handcuffed, according to records obtained by the local news station.

‘Yeah, he can’t be legit,’ Glen said on the 911 call. ‘Hell no, because he’s in a white Cadillac.’

Willard allegedly fled the scene, and the two men were able to remove the handcuffs on the young woman.

‘She said she graduated yesterday, she was frantic, she wasn’t talking how I’m talking to you now,’ Moore said.

‘She said he ran up to her and said, “I’m with the cops,” handcuffed her, and threw her in the backseat.’

Moore believes he was meant to be on the road at that time to help the young woman.

‘Delayed divine timing, there is an appointed place for us to be at an appointed time,’ he said.

The young woman was walking to her mother’s house the next morning when Willard allegedly approached her, told her he was a cop, and handcuffed her before putting her in the back seat of his car

Truck driver Anthony Moore, 53, was driving along a rural road near the border with Georgia when the girl jumped out of Willard’s vehicle and ran across the pavement begging for help