07-13-2011, 07:21 PM
Union Leader
GILSUM – Police have blockaded the downtown area of Gilsum after finding a car used by a man targeted in several Amber alerts, according to eyewitnesses.
Police agencies in four states spent most of Wednesday searching for Matthew Slocum, 23, who allegedly kidnapped his 4-month-old son, Raymond, and the boy’s mother, Loretta Colegrove, after a deadly house fire in White Creek, N.Y., about 4 a.m. Wednesday.
New York State Police Investigator Mary Beth Horne confirmed the 2003 black Ford Mustang Matthew Slocum used to drive from White Creek, N.Y., to North Adams, Mass., where he was spotted at 5 a.m. Wednesday, was found in Gilsum Wednesday evening.
“It has been found (in Gilsum). Yes,” Horne said. “They haven’t found the parties yet, though.”
Nate Dragoon said a police officer at a blockade told him they were trying to “extract an individual” when Dragoon tried to get to his Alstead Hill Road home.
“They’d blocked it off and I had to go around to the other side of the road to get home,” he said. Police “were pretty tight-lipped. They weren’t saying much.”
Robin Oke, who lives on Mack Road, said police officers from several agencies had blanketed the small town.
“There’s pretty much an officer at every corner,” he said. “There’s quite a police presence in Gilsum right now.”
GILSUM – Police have blockaded the downtown area of Gilsum after finding a car used by a man targeted in several Amber alerts, according to eyewitnesses.
Police agencies in four states spent most of Wednesday searching for Matthew Slocum, 23, who allegedly kidnapped his 4-month-old son, Raymond, and the boy’s mother, Loretta Colegrove, after a deadly house fire in White Creek, N.Y., about 4 a.m. Wednesday.
New York State Police Investigator Mary Beth Horne confirmed the 2003 black Ford Mustang Matthew Slocum used to drive from White Creek, N.Y., to North Adams, Mass., where he was spotted at 5 a.m. Wednesday, was found in Gilsum Wednesday evening.
“It has been found (in Gilsum). Yes,” Horne said. “They haven’t found the parties yet, though.”
Nate Dragoon said a police officer at a blockade told him they were trying to “extract an individual” when Dragoon tried to get to his Alstead Hill Road home.
“They’d blocked it off and I had to go around to the other side of the road to get home,” he said. Police “were pretty tight-lipped. They weren’t saying much.”
Robin Oke, who lives on Mack Road, said police officers from several agencies had blanketed the small town.
“There’s pretty much an officer at every corner,” he said. “There’s quite a police presence in Gilsum right now.”