Woman Saves Family With Pizza Hut App

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. According to a media release from the police department, Cheryl Treadway was being held hostage with her three children by her boyfriend Ethan Nickerson on Monday. Nickerson had taken Treadway's cell phone and demanded that he accompany her to pick up thier children from school. The man was also carrying a large knife. Hostage negotiator Lt. Curtis Ludden from the Highlands County Sheriff's Office arrived on scene first and as he pulled his cruiser up to the home, Treadway exited the house carrying one of her children. At first Nickerson refused to answer the door, but after 20 minutes, Ludden was able to convince him to come out peacefully.