Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine, sanitation workers for Pelican Waste, were on their route in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana when they spotted something. It was a vehicle that fit the description of an AMBER Alert went out in southern Louisiana about a missing 10-year-old girl.
“Something told me, like just look, I said what is that car doing in that field like that? What the car doing? Guess what, that’s the dude with the little girl. That’s God.” Merrick said later in a Facebook Live video
.The video has been seen nearly 2 million times since it was posted.
To prevent the kidnapper from escaping, they parked the sanitation truck the wrong way to “make sure they couldn’t get out” before calling police.
Police arrested Michael R. Sereal, and secured the girl unharmed. She was later taken to the hospital for examination.
The girls’ family has been in touch with the two men who saved her and are grateful for their intervention and heroism.