NORTH BERGEN AND BEYOND — Late Monday, family members and police were still looking for Martin Caballero, 47, of North Bergen, who disappeared Friday night during a trip to Atlantic City.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Caballero is a manager at Stop & Shop in Jersey City.
Caballero dropped off his wife near the Taj Majal Casino Friday night around 10:30 p.m. and went around the corner to a self-parking garage, family members told the media. Then, they did not hear from him again, and he did not answer his cell phone.
Around 1 a.m., someone (whom family members said did not look like him) was captured on a fuzzy video using his card at an ATM machine in a town 25 miles west on the Atlantic City Expressway, according to media reports.
At 2:30 p.m., his car was found burning in the parking lot of the Democrat Club in Gloucester City, 45 miles from Atlantic City.
According to the Inquirer, “Calls to Caballero’s cell phone have gone unanswered, authorities said. On Monday, investigators combed a wooded area near the Blackwood parking lot. Family members offered more details in an interview Monday. They said Caballero, who visits Atlantic City once a month or so, dropped his wife off in front of the casino. His daughters and two friends arrived minutes later. They parked near the entrance of a self-park garage. ‘Go pick up your mom,’ he said to his daughters … Later, Taj Mahal employees told the family that Caballero’s rewards card had been used around 10:30 p.m. to enter the garage, Cruz said. The card did not need to be swiped to leave the garage. ‘We think somebody must have grabbed him in the parking lot,’ [a family member] said.”
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