Click here to subscribe today or Login.
YATESVILLE — Jenkins Township police are investigating a report of an attempt to lure a 16-year-old girl into a vehicle.
The young woman told police she was nearly home from school when a man approached her and asked if she needed a ride around 2:30 p.m. on Friday. According to her report, she told the man she was almost home, and he proceeded to ask her to go for a ride with him.
She stated that the man drove away when another car came down the street.
The man is described as a white male in his mid-forties with blue eyes, a thin build and a scruffy beard, who was wearing a baseball cap and a tee shirt.
His truck is described as a red, full-size pickup towing a two-foot-high black trailer with mesh steel around it.
Anyone with information should contact the Jenkins Township Police Department at 570-654-1281.