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Dispatchers Save Abducted Woman, Driver Arrested For Kidnapping At GWB, Cops Say Dispatchers Save Abducted Woman, Driver Arrested For Kidnapping At GWB, Cops Say
Dispatchers Save Abducted Woman, Driver Arrested For Kidnapping At GWB, Cops Say Cool-headed police dispatchers from Edison Township are being credited with helping a woman abducted during a domestic dispute. Port Authority police later charged 39-year-old Chukwuebu D Emegoakor with kidnapping, criminal restraint, false imprisonment, terroristic threats and other offenses. The woman who was abducted called 911 at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, and was patched through to Edison dispatchers, police said.  Dispatchers kept the woman on the phone as the man drove toward New York City, with Edison police sending alerts to other departments, according to Edison…

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by Jon Craig
Obituaries
Burlington's James Stevenson, Police Dispatcher, Lifelong Volunteer Firefighter, 55 Burlington's James Stevenson, Police Dispatcher, Lifelong Volunteer Firefighter, 55
Burlington's James Stevenson, Police Dispatcher, Lifelong Volunteer Firefighter, 55 James T. Stevenson, of Burlington, died at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden on April 16, according to an obituary published by Page Funeral Home. He was 55 years old.  Jim had worked as a police dispatcher for several departments in Burlington County before the 911 operations were merged into Central Dispatch.. A volunteer firefighter, he also was a member of the Burlington City Fire Police and served as a fire photographer, his obituary said. A lifelong Burlington resident, Jim graduated from Burlington City High School.  He was a police dispatcher for the Mount Lau…

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by Jon Craig