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Toll stop at GWB leads to arrest of fugitive

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FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) -

Police in New Jersey who stopped a trucker suspected of trying to evade paying a toll say he unknowingly had picked up a person of interest in a Tennessee murder.

Port Authority police spokesman Al Della Fave said officers stopped Manuel Velasco's truck at the George Washington Bridge toll on Thursday.

Officers discovered his passenger, Charles Kelly, 52, was wanted on forgery and theft charges and is a person of interest in the May murder of man in White Pine, Tenn.

The trucker told police Kelly had asked for a ride at a gas station off Interstate 81 in Tennessee on Sunday. Velasco said he had taken Kelly on deliveries and even to his home in Valley Stream, N.Y., for dinner.

Kelly is awaiting extradition.

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