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An actor who usually plays the bad guy on screen got the chance to be a real life hero when he stopped a potential abduction in Jersey City. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

An actor who usually plays the bad guy on screen got the chance to be a real-life hero when he stopped a potential abduction near his home in New Jersey.

George Pogatsia is one of those actors who often is cast as a possible suspect or seedier character, as he has done on "Law & Order" and "The Sopranos." But he will never forget the real crime he thwarted outside his Jersey City home.

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"This guy was just insistent on trying to get this girl to go with him," he told NBC New York.

Pogatsia said he saw a 19-year

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