Deputies lauded for heartwarming video helping woman living in her car
Two Clay Clay County Sheriff's Office deputies played good Samaritan for a woman who had been living in her car and ran out of money for food and fuel. The bodycam video went viral and was featured in a national broadcast. Deputies Mark Maertz and Dalton Mahlke were at an Orange Park Wawa convenience store when the unnamed woman told them she was 71 and waiting for a check to arrive in a few days, trying to make her way back home out of state. "I sat in my car days in this heat and I just can't do it anymore," she said. "I get my check on Friday, but I can't go three days without eating." When Maertz asked her if she wanted to come inside so he could get her some food, she said, "Oh my God, you are a savior." They took her inside the store, and he purchased a sandwich, chips and a drink for her and gas for her car. When she attempted to get a medium-size drink, he said, "Why get a medium when you can get an extra large?" As the officers fill up her car, the woman said, "This is heaven on
