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Emergency personnel look over the wreckage from a fiery car crash on I-76 in Camden County. (Steve Skipton / PhillyFireNews.com)<br />
Emergency personnel look over the wreckage from a fiery car crash on I-76 in Camden County. (Steve Skipton / PhillyFireNews.com)
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Posted on Mon, Jan. 5, 2009


PCP, cocaine, .357, found after fiery S.J. crash

By Sam Wood

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A fiery car crash on Interstate 76 in Camden County last night led to the arrest of a Glassboro man on multiple drug and weapons charges, police said.

The wreck, at 10:30 p.m. in the highway's southbound lanes in Gloucester City, sent a Cadillac STS bursting into flames and trapped the driver of a Chevrolet Cavalier behind the wheel of her overturned sedan.

Firefighters from the Gloucester City Fire Department pried Neena Dagen, 24, from the overturned car with the jaws of life. Dagen was transported to Cooper University Hospital in Camden where she was being treated for unspecified injuries.

When state police arrived, firefighters told troopers that the driver of the Cadillac, Robert Rivera, 29, had a .357 handgun.

Troopers said they found the loaded weapon on the floor of the burnt out luxury car along with two vials of what is believed to be PCP.

The Cadillac was towed to the troopers' Bellmawr station where a search uncovered an amount of cocaine in the vehicle's trunk, police said.

Rivera, who was not injured in the crash, was being held last night at the Camden County jail on $50,000 cash bail after being charged with driving while under the influence, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, and drugs and other weapons counts.

Contact staff writer Sam Wood at 215-854-2796 or at samwood@phillynews.com.

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Comments
Posted by scorpio27 09:59 AM, 01/05/2009
bonehead.
Posted by a.b.s. 10:31 AM, 01/05/2009
clearly, you're an idiot ^
Posted by Reggie Dunlop 10:38 AM, 01/05/2009
Camden Rules!
Posted by footlooseman 11:18 AM, 01/05/2009
a ball player?
Posted by Tango 11:36 AM, 01/05/2009
no doubt an Eagles fan.
Posted by jackpaul 11:37 AM, 01/05/2009
Stupid!
Posted by skyye35 12:26 PM, 01/05/2009
Way to go IDIOT!
Posted by Boke 12:57 PM, 01/05/2009
Bite me, Tango, you loser Giants fan.
Posted by Tango 04:57 PM, 01/05/2009
Not a Giants fan necessarily just hate the Eagles and their obnoxious fans. Go G Men!
Posted by rockinrob 05:22 PM, 01/05/2009
Plaxico is digging himself deeper and deeper.
Posted by rockinrob 05:24 PM, 01/05/2009
Plaxico is digging himself deeper and deeper.
Posted by jcw 06:38 AM, 01/06/2009
Cadillac? PCP? Cocaine? .357? Who did this guy think he was? Hunter Thompson?
Posted by JoeyPantsII 12:21 PM, 01/06/2009
Tango: who do you like? Come on, you can tell us...
Posted by Moe_Syzlak 04:03 PM, 01/06/2009
Nice one jcw. Maybe he was inhaling ether and it exploded on him. There's nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the midst of an ether binge ya know.
Posted by david wayne 04:27 PM, 01/06/2009
Sounds like they got a "winner."
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