State police have prepared a composite sketch of the suspect, which was released Thursday afternoon.
Westwood Police investigating possible luring
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 2012, 8:04 PM
BY REBECCA D. O’BRIEN AND DEENA YELLIN
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
WESTWOOD — Police are investigating a possible luring incident that took place Thursday morning, the latest in a string of reports involving men accosting children on Bergen County streets.
At around 7:10 a.m. Thursday, a 13-year-old junior high school student was walking alone to school on Lafayette Avenue, when a gray four-door hatchback pulled up alongside her, police said.
The driver tried to engage the girl in conversation, Police Captain Frank Durante said.
The driver, described as a white middle-age male with a crew cut and receding hairline, asked the girl if she wanted a ride to or from school, Durante said.
The student continued to school, where she reported the incident to administrators, who called the police.
The perpetrators in recent luring incidents in Maywood, Oradell, Hackensack, Hawthorne and Fair Lawn have also been described as white, middle-age men, police have said. The victim of an Oct. 12 luring in Ridgewood described three young black men who tried to get her into their car, police said. In Oradell and Washington Township, the car described was a small gray car. The car in Hackensack was described as a black Jeep, authorities have said.