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Timothy Kerr, 27, a New Milford native, and 30-year-old girlfriend Shannon McDevitt of Madison had been living in the motel “off and on” the past several months, South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser said.
McDevitt had been ducking authorities in her hometown, where she was wanted on more than $40,000 worth of warrants stemming from a burglary and the use of credit cards taken in the break-in, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.
Records show that Kerr, a New Milford High School graduate, had once trained as a Cavalry Scout for the U.S. Army but was never deployed. Scouts move around battlefields to collect intelligence that gives commanders an idea of what’s happening on the ground. His status couldn’t be determined today.
On Monday, McDevitt snapped a photo of herself and Kerr and posted it online (above).
Now her daughter is in the custody of state authorities, and both she and Kerr remained held on $25,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail on child endangerment charges. Madison authorities have also filed a detainer on McDevitt in the event she makes bail.
McDevitt, Kerr
The owner of the Stagecoach motel summoned police to Room 2 around noon on Wednesday, Kaiser said.
The room was dirty and the girl’s was diaper wet, he said, but police and EMS workers otherwise found her in apparent good health.
She was strapped in the stroller a motel employee found her in after going to the couple’s room at checkout time, getting no answer and letting himself in.
The child was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center for an examination as a precaution, the captain said. She then remained in the custody of the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, which was working to place her, he added.
Kerr
Police determined that McDevitt and Kerr left the room sometime before 9 a.m., Kaiser said.
The infant had already been taken to the hospital when the couple returned to the motel around 12:30, he said.
Waiting police officers took them into custody, he said.
(NOTE: Other media, apparently relying on the word of a motel employee, said the couple left at 10:45. Police corrected that account for this story.)
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