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Southington, CT
Police & Fire
Missing Southington 11-Year-Old Found Safe By Alert Citizen Missing Southington 11-Year-Old Found Safe By Alert Citizen
Missing Southington 11-Year-Old Found Safe By Alert Citizen A concerned citizen has found a Connecticut 11-year-old who had been missing for more than a day. Related: Missing: Southington Boy, 11, Hasn't Been Seen Since Leaving Home Hartford County resident Cody Schrlau, of Southington, went missing from his home on Monday, Sept. 2.  According to Capt. James Armack of the Southington Police, the boy was spotted on a walking trail in New Haven County in Cheshire. The citizen contacted the Cheshire Police who responded and stopped Cody, Armack said. "He is currently being reunited with family members," the captain said. Armack thanked …

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by Kathy Reakes
Fairfield, CT
Police & Fire
Missing 16-Year-Old Fairfield Girl Found Safe In New Jersey Missing 16-Year-Old Fairfield Girl Found Safe In New Jersey
Missing 16-Year-Old Fairfield Girl Found Safe In New Jersey A 16-year-old Fairfield County girl who has been missing for more than a week has been found safe by police. Related: Missing Fairfield 16-Year-Old Girl Spotted In New Jersey, Police Consider Her Endangered Jomana Ali was last seen on Elm Street in Fairfield at around 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2. Since that time, police said she is believed to be endangered due to age and mental health. Early Saturday, July 13, Fairfield Police Sgt. Michael Stahl said Jomana was located by the Greenwich Township Police Department in Warren County, New Jersey, around 2:15 a.m. Warren County is abo…

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by Kathy Reakes
White Plains, NY
News
New Reports Surface Of Underage Migrants Being Flown Into Westchester County Airport New Reports Surface Of Underage Migrants Being Flown Into Westchester County Airport
New Reports Surface Of Underage Migrants Being Flown Into Westchester County Airport Hundreds of more migrants have reportedly been flown into New York airports as part of President Joe Biden’s administration’s efforts to resettle them across the East Coast. Over the summer, former County Executive and potential gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino first broke the news that undocumented immigrants were being flown in “secret flights” into the Westchester County Airport. Original story - Undocumented Immigrants Flown Into Westchester County Airport On Private Flights, Reports Say In more recent weeks, planeloads of immigrants have been flown into New York airports, with f…

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by Zak Failla
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
ID Released For Former Westchester Resident Missing After Florida Condo Collapse ID Released For Former Westchester Resident Missing After Florida Condo Collapse
ID Released For Former Westchester Resident Missing After Florida Condo Collapse As first responders continue their search for any survivors of a 12-story condo that collapsed in Surfside, Florida, local residents are holding out hope that a former resident who is among the missing will be found. Judy Spiegel, age 65, a Long Island native from Plainview who later lived in Southampton, as well as in Westchester County, in Ardsley, is one of the 152 still listed as missing, officials said. Spiegel's husband, Kevin Spiegel, was out of town on business when the collapse occurred. Kevin Spiegel, along with his three grown children, has staged a vigil nearby the Ch…

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by Kathy Reakes
Elizabeth, NJ
Police & Fire
KNOW ANYTHING? Authorities Seek Parents Of Boy, 4, Found Wandering In Elizabeth KNOW ANYTHING? Authorities Seek Parents Of Boy, 4, Found Wandering In Elizabeth
Know Anything? Authorities Seek Parents Of Boy, 4, Found Wandering In Elizabeth UPDATE: The boy's family has been located. Authorities on Monday morning were seeking the public's help in locating the family of a 4-year-old boy found wandering in Elizabeth. Police did not release further information.

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by Cecilia Levine
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Did You Know? Greyhound Gives Runaways A Free Ride Home Did You Know? Greyhound Gives Runaways A Free Ride Home
Did You Know? Greyhound Gives Runaways A Free Ride Home Greyhound Bus Lines is reminding young runaways who want to reunite with their families that they can get a free ride home from anywhere in the U.S. Since 1995, the Home Free program has assisted more than 16,000 families by busing runaways home for free via a partnership with Greyhound and the National Runaway Safeline. Around 400 runaways a year take advantage of the offer, Greyhound says. With the “Home Free” program, runaways: Must be between 12 and 21 years old; Must be named on a runaway report; Must be willing to be reunited with their family; Must have family members or guardians…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Franklin Township, NJ
News
Montgomery Wants Immigrant Family Members Out Of Detention Centers: Report Montgomery Wants Immigrant Family Members Out Of Detention Centers: Report
Montgomery Wants Immigrant Family Members Out Of Detention Centers: Report Officials in Montgomery Township unanimously passed a resolution calling on the U.S. government to release migrants being held in detention centers and reunited with their family members, NJ.com reported.  The resolution, passed by the township committee earlier this month, calls on federal lawmakers representing New Jersey to push for an end to immigrant detention, with an emphasis on reuniting families that have been split up.  In some cases, people who have lived for decades in the United States and raised families here have been separated from their spouses and children. …

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by Paul Milo
Elizabeth, NJ
Police & Fire
Sleeping Teen Gets Locked Inside Union Target Sleeping Teen Gets Locked Inside Union Target
Sleeping Teen Gets Locked Inside Union Target A 17-year-old Irvington girl was reunited with her mother Wednesday after she was accidentally locked inside the Target store on Rt. 22 E in Union, police said.  The girl had fallen asleep between two clothing aisles and woke up around 3 a.m., said Lt. Victor Correia. When she realized the doors had been locked, she called police.  The Target store in Union closes at 11 p.m., according to its website.  The girl had been reported missing by her mother in Irvington. She was returned to her mother by Union police.  The store's loss prevention unit told police nothing had …

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by Paul Milo
Fairfield, CT
News
Man Who Abducted Son In 1987 Located, Arrested In Connecticut Man Who Abducted Son In 1987 Located, Arrested In Connecticut
Man Who Abducted Son In 1987 Located, Arrested In Connecticut A man who allegedly kidnapped his toddler in Canada, changed his name and came to America was arrested in Connecticut on Friday after more than three decades on the run. Allan Mann, Jr., who has dual Canadian and Ghanaian citizenship, allegedly abducted his 21-month-old, Jermaine Allan Mann, in Canada in 1987 during a court-ordered visit in Toronto. He then allegedly came to America, and acquired counterfeit birth certificates for the two of them. He also changed his name to Hailee Randolph DeSouza. It is alleged that Mann has been living in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development …

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by Zak Failla
White Plains, NY
News
Westchester County Offers Help To Reunite Separated Families Westchester County Offers Help To Reunite Separated Families
Westchester County Offers Help To Reunite Separated Families County Executive George Latimer has offered Westchester's Department of Social Services to assist the federal government reunite children currently housed in local facilities with their families. Under state law, county Departments of Social Services (DSS) are required to have plans and systems to return children separated from family and relatives if they have been removed from a parent or parents. On Monday, June 25, Latimer, a Democrat from Rye, said: “The Westchester County Department of Social Services, as part of its child protection mission, has the ability to link children up with…

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by Jon Craig