The woman alleges her ex-husband and another woman beat and sexually assaulted her

NEED TO KNOW

• Arturo Calzada-Becerril and Erendira Amoles have been arrested
• They told police they’d been holding the woman captive to make sure she wouldn’t run away, police allege
• Police allege Calzada-Becerril would bring the woman food twice a day and made her use a bucket in the bedroom as her toilet

Authorities in North Dakota have arrested two people after rescuing a woman they say was being held against her will.

Arturo Calzada-Becerril, 40, and Erendira Amoles, 41, were arrested after a maintenance worker discovered the woman in a Fargo, N.D., apartment on Tuesday, Nov. 3, the Fargo Police Department said in a statement.

Authorities alleged the woman had been held “for an extended period of time.”

The investigation began after a worker conducting routine maintenance allegedly heard the woman’s cries for help and went into the residence to find her chained to a bed with a camera pointed at her, according to court documents cited by Valley News Live. The windows in the unit were covered in tin foil.

An officer wrote in the documents that the woman had a “padlock secured around her right ankle with the other end of the chain secured to the bed,” the outlet reported.

The woman allegedly told police that Calzada-Becerril, her ex-husband, had brought her from Mexico and held her captive inside the apartment for two years. She said he initially let her out of the bedroom occasionally but eventually stopped.

Calzada-Becerril would bring her food twice a day and made her use a bucket — which was in the bedroom — to use as a toilet, the officer wrote.

The woman further alleged to investigators Calzada-Becerril and Amoles would beat her and sexually assault her, Valley News Live reported. Police found bruises on her body and her face.

After the woman was taken to the hospital, Amoles arrived at the residence with her 8-year-old child, police said.

Amoles allegedly told police she had locked the woman up earlier that day before picking up her 8-year-old child to prevent her from running away.

Calzada-Becerril and Amoles told police the woman had assaulted them and once came at them with a knife.

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Calzada-Becerril has been charged with domestic violence-bodily injury and Amoles with simple assault, according to online court records reviewed by PEOPLE. They pleaded not guilty to the respective charges.

Both their records further show charges of kidnapping-terrorize-adult victim, but without any plea information.

The kidnapping charge, while under the same cases for each of them, shows the incident date as Nov. 3, 2024. The police previously said they are both charged with Felonious Restraint Involving an Adult Victim, which is under the same statute as the kidnapping-terrorizing charge, albeit under a different provision. The prosecutor’s office was not available to clarify the date for their kidnapping charges.

PEOPLE has reached out to the respective lawyers for Calzada-Becerril and Amoles for further comment.

If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.

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