Runaway found through posters
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- January
- 14
The system worked, though there were some bumps along the way.
A Haverstraw runaway, Kimberly Escobar, 16, was found and back with her family, as of Saturday. Her mother reported her missing on Jan. 2, after she left home on Dec. 24.
Escobar was found, police say, because a cabbie recognized her face from missing posters distributed on Friday by the Sheriff’s Department C.A.R.E. program and the Haverstraw police. C.A.R.E stands for Computer Aided Rescue Effort
Upon seeing the poster on Friday, the cab driver called the police and told them he remembered driving the teenager to Northvale, N.J., police said. Haverstraw police then contacted their counterparts in Northvale. Officers went to the house and found the girl.
The CARE program sent out a missing person flier on Friday to more than a 1,000 targets in the region including law enforcement, hospitals, merchants, post offices, emergency service providers, and transportation centers and providers like cab companies, said Officer Walter Famular, who oversees the C.A.R.E. program.
Famular had been working with Haverstraw Detective Sgt. John Salter and Detective Charles Hatala.
Since police determined Escobar had run away from home because of arguments with her mother over her following household rules, no criminal charges were filed.
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on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pm by Steve Lieberman.
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