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Parent's Worst Nightmare: Car Thief Steals Vehicle With NJ Child Still Inside, Reports Say
A family in Essex County experienced every parent's worst nightmare on Wednesday, July 5. The Irvington family's black Mercedes was stolen on Elmwood Avenue — their 7-year-old child inside, abc7 and CBS News report. The father had put his son, who was diagnosed with autism, in the vehicle when another man jumped behind the wheel and drove off, the outlet said citing police. The car was found several blocks away with the child inside and unharmed, according to reports. A suspect remains at large, according to reports. Irvington Police did not respond to Daily Voice's request for informatio…
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Alert Infant Found Inside Stolen SUV In Newark: Authorities
A suspect was at-large after a 3-month-old infant was found inside of an abandoned Mercedes Benz SUV with a Texas plate in Newark on Tuesday, Oct. 18, authorities say. Irvington police had alerted several municipalities in Essex County and the Child Abduction Response Patrol Units that the gold SUV was taken from the 1100 block of Clinton Avenue in Irvington at 8:09 p.m., according to the Essex County Sheriff's Department. The baby was found "awake and alert" in the backseat in Newark's South Ward on Tuesday evening, at 10:51 p.m., Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said, addi…
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Girl Kicks Herself Free From Abductor In South Jersey: Police
Police in South Jersey are investigating an attempted child abduction, authorities said. A young girl said she was walking northeast on Weekstown Road headed towards Pleasantmills Road when a male driver stopped on Sunday, Mullica Township police said. His vehicle was described as a small red "beat up and dirty" car, police said. The car's make and model were unknown. Police said the man stopped alongside the girl, got out and grabbed the victim by the arm. "The victim was able to kick the suspect and escape," Mullica police said. The suspect then drove off southwest on Weeksto…
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How About Some AC? Police Say Pennsylvania Predator Invited Hot Kids To Cool Off In His Car
"Hey kids, you want some candy?" is apparently outdated. Now potential abductors ask, "Hey kids, you want some air conditioning?" That sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but on Tuesday, a man supposedly asked two children that question, according to Derry Township police. Two men in the Swatara Creek area walked from their parked vehicles to the Deer Run development and spoke with 9 and 11-year-old boys sitting with their dog on a porch outside a home around 5 p.m. One man spoke to the children and the other stood by his car. The man "commented that it was hot outside and the boys c…
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Palisades Parkway PD: Boy, 1, Abducted From NJ Lookout Found Safe In NY
Palisades Interstate Parkway police found a 1-year-old boy safe and sound in Orange County, NY after his mother's boyfriend abducted him from a Hudson River lookout in New Jersey late Monday afternoon, authorities said. The boy’s mother, 24, called PIP police after her boyfriend took her son and drove off, leaving her at the Rockefeller Lookout rest area on the northbound parkway shortly after 4:30 p.m., Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. Parkway police issued an alert for a KIA Sorrento with a temporary New Jersey license plate. The search ended shortly after, Walter said. “Police wer…
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Abducted NJ Toddler Found In Tennessee, Dad In Custody, Mom Remains Missing
A 2-year-old boy abducted by his dad was found unharmed in Tennessee while his mom remained missing as of Saturday morning, authorities in Union County said. Tyler Rios, 27, of Highland Park was arrested without incident, Acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Rahway Police Department Director Jonathan Parham said. Yasmine Uyar of Rahway, had yet to be found, they said. Rios was convicted of aggravated assault on a domestic violence victim and was placed on conditional probation out of Middlesex County just last year, court records show. A multi-agency investigation was la…
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'Abducted Child' Not Found In South Jersey Woods, Authorities Say
A neighborhood report of a child abduction in South Jersey turned out to be false, authorities said. About 11 p.m. Monday, a caller told police that they witnessed an unidentified man force a 7- or 8-year-old boy into the woods, police said. Multiple local police and firefighters and New Jersey State Police searched woods off of Blenheim Avenue and Ritz Drive,, police said on Tuesday. Absecon police and firefighters were helped in the ground and air search by the New Jersey State Police aviation unit and police from Galloway and Pleasantville. "After a thorough investigation there h…
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Man Who Says He's Dulce Alavez's Dad Posts YouTube Birthday Tribute & Police Want To Know More
Authorities are hoping to speak with the father of Dulce Alavez, who was abducted from a South Jersey park in 2019 and been missing ever since, NJ.com reports. A man who identified himself in the YouTube video Edgar Perez, Dulce's father, posted the tribute online in honor of her 7th birthday. "I'm really sad and hurt," Perez says over the music as slides of his daughter go by. "I don't know where she is, who she is with -- I don't know if my baby girl is okay. Just like everyone, I want to know where she is." Perez was deported in 2018 and is living in Mexico, NJ.com says. He has only be…
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