Ridgewood Police: Second attempted Luring Incident reported
October 21,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Police investigating luring report that a man tried to accost 8-year-old boy in a restaurant bathroom on Sunday.The boy was in the restroom of the Daily Treat on East Ridgewood Avenue at around 2 p.m. when a man tapped him on the shoulder and said “come with me.”
In his statement to Police the boy said the man was wearing a black button-down shirt, blue jeans and gray work boots. He was carrying a black motorcycle helmet with a visor.
Sunday’s incident was the latest in a string of luring incidents throughout North Jersey and has Bergen county on edge . Four luring reports have been made in New Milford since Thursday, and nearly a dozen have been reported in North Jersey since mid-September.
Similar reports of strangers approaching children have been reported to police in Westwood, Maywood, Hackensack, Hawthorne, Washington Township, Fair Lawn, Fairview and one previous in Ridgewood.
Anyone with information about this incident or similar incidents is encouraged to contact the Ridgewood Police Department 201-652-3900 or detective Doug Henky at 201-251-4536