Toms River Family Returns Back Home after being Trapped in Aruba for weeks

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Toms River Family Returns Back Home after being Trapped in Aruba for weeks

Jamie-Greene-with-her-son-Elijah-Kapatos-and-boyfriend-Carlos-Pacheco

WELCOME HOME ELIJAH!

The Family was rescued by Carnival Cruises
who diverted their ship to
pick them up and bring them home
  • Jamie Greene and her boyfriend Carlos Pacheco left their home in Toms River, New Jersey, for a vacation with their three children on May 10
  • The family of five were traveling to Aruba for a week, and on May 17 arrived at the airport to board their United Airlines flight back to Newark
  • Greene's son Elijah Kapatos, 15, who she described as having 'low-functioning, non-verbal autism', had an episode on the plane, and United refused to fly them
  • Pacheco and their two younger children, aged 12 and 7, flew home on May 24 but no airline would take the teenager
  • Greene's friends and family fundraised for a medical evacuation flight, but that refused to take them: she made a desperate appeal on Facebook
  • A charity, seeing her post, reached out and began making connections: Greene and her son eventually boarded a Carnival Cruise ship to Miami on June 5
  • Greene and Elijah eventually returned home to New Jersey on Monday, having driven from the port in Miami with volunteers from autism charity Kulture City 

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