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Photo Progression Shows What Dulce Alavez Could Look Like Now Photo Progression Shows What Dulce Alavez Could Look Like Now
Photo Progression Shows What Dulce Alavez Could Look Like Now The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released an age-progression photo of what New Jersey's Dulce Maria Alavez might look like now. The rendering was released on Wednesday, Sept. 15, two years after the then-5-year-old disappeared from Bridgeton City Park. Dulce was playing with her 3-year-old brother, Manuel, when she went missing on Sept. 16, 2019. Manuel told their mom in a nearby vehicle that her sister had disappeared while they were playing together near a storage building next to the playground. The NCIC released the rendering of what Dulce mig…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Federal Grand Jury Indicts South Jersey Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Driver Federal Grand Jury Indicts South Jersey Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Driver
Federal Grand Jury Indicts South Jersey Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Driver An angry South Jersey police officer doused a drunk driver with pepper spray twice after he’d been handcuffed, then filed a false report about the incident, an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Thursday alleges. Another officer had handcuffed the disruptive driver and was beginning to put him in the rear of a patrol vehicle at a local gas station when Bridgeton Police John Grier III “grabbed a large can of OC spray and pulled out the pin,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig said. Grier, 49, of Cedarville, told the officer to “step back,” then asked the driver, “Do you want to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEEN HIM? Police Release Sketch Of Possible Witness In Dulce Alavez Case SEEN HIM? Police Release Sketch Of Possible Witness In Dulce Alavez Case
Seen HIM? Police Release Sketch Of Possible Witness In Dulce Alavez Case Authorities released a composite sketch of a man who may have been a witness in the case of a girl who vanished from a South Jersey park last month. The unidentified man was reportedly seen in Bridgeton City Park around the time Dulce Alavez, 5, went missing Sept. 16, local police said. The man was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and a white baseball-style cap, and was with one or two children around five years old, local police said. He was reported as a Hispanic male around 5-feet, 7-inches with a slender build, between 30 and 35 years old, Bridgeton police said. "This com…

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by Cecilia Levine