Crime & Safety

Plainsboro Man Charged With Taking His Baby From Mother

The incident began at 12:00 a.m. this past Friday. Nov. 22 when the father took the four-month-old child and fled to Pennsylvania.

PLAINSBORO, NJ — A Plainsboro Township man was arrested this past Friday, Nov. 22 on charges that he took his four-month old child from the mother and threatened to hurt himself.

Trevon Walker, 24, was arrested and charged with interfering with custody in the third degree, said the Middlesex County prosecutor.

The incident began at approximately 12:00 a.m. Friday when police were told the four-month-old child was taken by its father from a home in Plainsboro. New Jersey State Police issued an Amber Alert for the infant at 12:21 a.m. Friday.

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However, they rescinded the call shortly after the baby was dropped off at a location in Trenton. The child was medically cleared and unharmed and has been returned to the mother.

Walker fled to Pennsylvania and was located and apprehended in Morrisville, Pennsylvania with the help of the New Jersey State Police Fugitive Unit, said the Middlesex County prosecutor.

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Walker is being held in Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to New Jersey.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Robert Urie of the Plainsboro Police Department at (609) 799- 2333 or Detective David Abromaitis at the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745- 4436.

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