Authorities reached out to the public Thursday for help in identifying a man who tried to abduct schoolgirls on Mountain View-area roadsides on three occasions this month.
In all of the cases, the would-be kidnapper, a white or Hispanic man who appeared to be in his 50s, drove alongside the victims and offered them rides as they were walking home from Emerson Elementary School, according to San Diego police.
Each of the girls -- two of them 10 years old and two 11 -- refused to get into the sedan, at which point the man offered them money to do so, SDPD public affairs Lt. Andra Brown said.
"When the girls again declined, he yelled, `Get in the car now! The girls ran away and were unharmed,'' Brown said. "In one case, the (man) followed the girl to her yard.''
Ft. Wayne, IN
Police were searching for a man Thursday who reportedly abducted a 9-year-old girl and released her a few miles away.
Police said the child was riding her bicycle around the
intersection of Boone and Osage streets, near Nebraska Elementary
School, when a white male exited a blue, full-sized van and grabbed her.
The man forced the child into the van and drove her to the 3800 block
of Wenonah Lane, where he let her go, police said.
The child appeared uninjured, but police are actively pursuing a search for the suspect.
The vehicle was described as a blue to light blue van with a sunroof and tan, leather seats.
The man was described as muscular, between 20 and 30 years old,
with buzzed-cut blonde or light-brown hair. He was clean shaven and
wearing a gray, v-neck tank top and dark-blue jean shorts. The man had
two tattoos: a heart with vines and a cross-eyed skull with the word
"love" written underneath it.
Cleveland police released photos of a man who allegedly tried to
abduct a 12-year-old girl from a west side RTA Rapid station while she
was going to school.
The incident happened at about 7:40 a.m. Wednesday as the girl was getting off the train at the Puritas Avenue station.
According to the police report, a man grabbed the girl by the left arm, but she broke free. As she started to run away, the man grabbed her by the arm again, pushed her up against a fence and then tried to push her into a shrub.
The girl told officers the man tried to slap her in the face, but she blocked his hand.
The driver of a car saw what was happening, stopped and then asked if everything was OK. The girl was then able to break free and run toward her school, Puritas Community School, where she alerted staff of the incident. The man ran toward the Rapid station.
According to the police report, a man grabbed the girl by the left arm, but she broke free. As she started to run away, the man grabbed her by the arm again, pushed her up against a fence and then tried to push her into a shrub.
The girl told officers the man tried to slap her in the face, but she blocked his hand.
The driver of a car saw what was happening, stopped and then asked if everything was OK. The girl was then able to break free and run toward her school, Puritas Community School, where she alerted staff of the incident. The man ran toward the Rapid station.
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