Verona Cops Help Reunite Missing Senior With Family

VERONA, NJ — Verona police helped a missing, elderly man reunite with his family last month, authorities say.

According to the Verona Police Department, officer Giovanni DeSomma took a missing person report for a male senior citizen on Sept. 18. While investigating the incident, DeSomma received information that the missing man was possibly on a train headed to Belmar.

When he checked the train schedule, DeSomma saw that there was a stop in Long Branch and notified the local police. The Long Branch Police Department then sent an officer to the train station and found the missing senior, authorities said.

Authorities transported the elderly man to the Long Branch Police station and picked up a short time later by a family member, Verona police said.

The effort from Verona police mirrored a similar incident last spring, when Cedar Grove police helped reunite a missing Newark senior citizen with his family.

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