An 11-year-old girl in Pensacola, Florida smeared blue slime she was playing with on a man who attempted to kidnap her as she waited for her bus, a move she believed would help identify the suspect later because she watched “Law & Order: SVU,” CNN reports.
The ploy worked. As surveillance footage of the incident shows, the girl, whose name is given only as Alyssa, fought off the attacker, who had stopped his white crossover vehicle at the bus stop, carried a knife and tried to physically pick up the girl. Alyssa fought back, smearing the slime on her attacker’s arms as she broke free from him.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s office noted that when they arrested 30-year-old Jared Paul Stanga, he had the blue slime all over his arms. Stanga has been charged with attempted kidnapping of a child under 13, aggravated assault with a weapon and simple battery, according to the sheriff’s office. He’s being held on $1.5 million bond.