The woman reported the allegations to authorities at 7:47 a.m. Friday, the sheriff’s office said. Minutes before, Johnson saw the woman hunched over and appearing to crawl up her front steps, asking for help, the station reported. The woman told the grandmother that she'd been held in the basement since last month and that she escaped after her captor left the house Friday morning, KSHB reported. The sheriff's office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Haslett was taken into custody after authorities searched his home and the Kansas City police crime scene investigators processed the scene, the sheriff's office said.

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