Northern California bus driver hailed as hero after spotting kidnapped boy on his bus
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A Northern California bus driver who spotted a 3-year-old boy and his kidnapper on his bus and alerted police is being hailed as a hero.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1G24T03) bus driver Tim Watson spotted the boy in the company of a man Friday after hearing a 3-year-old had been kidnapped from the Milpitas Public Library.
Watson says he stopped the bus, announced that he was looking for a missing green backpack and casually looked at the boy's shoes. They were red, just like the ones the missing boy was described as wearing.
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He says he called his dispatcher, who in turn notified police. When the bus stopped at the Fremont BART station, police arrested 23-year-old Alfonso David Edington of Pittsburg.
Milpitas Police Chief Steve Pangelinan says Watson is an "absolute hero."
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Information from: The San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com