Sex assault victim calls 911 to ‘order a pizza,’ illegal immigrant arrested

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An illegal immigrant was busted while allegedly trying to rape a Florida woman — who had called 911 and pretended to order a pizza, police said.

Luis Hernandez-Moncayo, 27, faces charges for an allegedly trying to sexual assault a woman one day after he applied for asylum, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said.

According to the alleged victim, she and Hernandez-Moncayo had gone out for drinks, but he turned “extremely violent” after doing cocaine.

The woman alerted authorities by tricking Hernandez-Moncayo into thinking she was ordering food — but was really on the line to 911.

“Yeah, I would like to order a pizza,” the woman says in audio of the call released by police, her voice altered to protect her identity.

“Are you aware you’re calling 911?” the dispatcher asked — immediately catching on when the woman replied: “Yes, I’m sure I’m calling to that number. Can I get a pizza?”

She added: “I would like to order pepperoni and extra cheese,” as the dispatcher kept her on the line asking extra questions to determine the woman was with one man who was not armed.

The sheriff’s department eventually tracked the caller’s location and video shows deputies arriving at the scene where the accused attacker was allegedly on top of the woman.

“He’s trying to rape me!” the woman screams, according to the video. “Can you help?”

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The officers appear to take down and handcuff their suspect as the sobbing woman repeatedly cries out, “thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you, Jesus! He tried to rape me!”

Sheriff Mike Chitwood praised the woman for being able to keep her wits about her and convey the kind of danger she was facing to dispatchers, whom he also lauded.

“When you watch the video … and you hear those screams, it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up,” he said.

The woman told police “he became extremely violent and wouldn’t let her go and tried to rape her,” Chitwood continued. “The video speaks for itself.”

The sheriff added that instead of asylum he was seeking, Hernandez-Moncayo is “now sitting in jail, charged with attempted sexual battery, battery by strangulation, and false imprisonment, with an immigration detainer from the U.S. Border Patrol.”