UPDATE: Lower Police Locate Missing Woman

COLD SPRING — Lower Township police have located a missing Cold Spring woman, whom they declined to identify, after a search conducted with the initial help of the Cape May County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit.
Police and Sheriff’s officers were searching Seashore Road Dec. 28 about 2 p.m. in the vicinity of Historic Cold Spring Village, Cold Spring Presbyterian Church and the Lower Township Public Works Yard for the woman, who reportedly lives in the Cold Spring area.
Police and other sources declined to identify the woman or to provide any further details Jan. 4. Sources said the woman has a history of mental instability.
The county K-9 Unit was tracking scent Dec. 28 down Seashore Road near Historic Cold Spring Village, southbound, past the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, up to Town Bank Road, where they turned westbound and proceeded approximately a block turning back toward the intersection of Seashore and Town Bank.
According to sheriff’s officers, the search was aided by a “credible witness” who told police he saw the female get on a NJ Transit bus.
Police checked with NJ Transit, and asked a Sheriff’s Department unit to search the bus when it arrived at Crest Haven Complex on its regularly scheduled stop.
On Monday, Dec. 31, Sheriff’s K-9 officers confirmed that K-9s tracked the woman’s scent to the location at Town Bank Road where she had reportedly boarded the bus.
“It was a good track,” said K-9 Officer Clay Simmons.
Sheriffs had boarded the NJ Transit bus Dec. 28 and spoken to the driver, but the woman was unable to be located at that time.