The Tennessee pizza delivery man who police credit with saving an Atlanta woman's life is now in jail.
Last month, Sevier County (Tenn.) sheriff's deputies called pizza delivery man Chris Turner a hero for helping rescue an Atlanta stripper who said she was kidnapped, tied up and raped in a Smoky Mountains cabin.
This week, the same deputies arrested Turner, 32, on domestic violence charges, according to the sheriff's department.
Turner is being held in the Sevier jail on a $7,500 bond, deputies said Wednesday.
Turner's wife, Laniesha, told officers her husband hit her while they were delivering a pizza.
The husband and wife delivery duo said they were together May 26 when Snellville businessman David Jansen ordered a pizza and some hot wings delivered to a cabin outside Gatlinburg. Jansen was signing the credit card receipt when a 24-year-old woman popped up off the couch and silently pleaded for Chris Turner to call 911.
The woman's hands were bound, Turner said.
Shortly later, deputies arrested Jansen on charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape. Jansen remains free on a $800,000 bond.
The woman, a stripper at Tattletale's in Atlanta, told investigators Jansen kidnapped her from her Morningside neighborhood and drove her to the mountain cabin, where he raped her twice.
Jansen, 46, claims the sex was consensual and part of a bondage fantasy of the woman's. He has asked for the charges to be dropped.
The Sevier County District Attorney's Office is still investigating the case, officials said Wednesday. Jansen is scheduled to appear in court July 17.
Prosecutors said they are reviewing Jansen's request for the charges to be dismissed, including court records that show the woman pleaded guilty to filing false assault reports twice in Georgia.
The woman's family has also called her a "pathological liar."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution does not identify alleged sexual assault victims.
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