Accused Kidnapper Surrenders to Police

A 38-year-old Camden man charged with running a car his girlfriend was in off the road, then kidnapping and beating her, turned himself into Gloucester Township police on Tuesday.

Jamoree Stevens, of the unit block of Princess Street, was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, assault with auto and several related charges.

His former girlfriend escaped from Steven's car in Camden after he allegedly snatched her out of a vehicle at the Scenic Falls Apartments in Blackwood on Friday and drove away, police said. The abducted woman told police Stevens rammed the vehicle she was in from behind and pushed it nearly 25 feet into a fence near an embankment.

That's when he jumped out of his car and threatened his estranged girlfriend with a brick and abducted her, police said. Stevens drove to Camden, where the girlfriend, who was not immediately identified, escaped the car on Martin Luther King Boulevard. She said he was assaulting her on the way.

A search ensued with the Camden County Police force in Camden and federal marshals, but Stevens was not found until he turned himself in on Tuesday.

He was held on a $250,000 cash bail at the Camden County jail.

Stevens has a history of prior convictions, according to state records. He was jailed for a year for aggravated assault in 2008, and placed on four years probation. He was sentenced to a year in prison in 2005 for criminal mischief and damaging property.

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