Suspicious Man Offers Ride To Berkeley Middle School Boys
BERKELEY (CBS SF) -- Parents in Berkeley were warned that a man in a "scrappy" blue 4-door car offered a ride to two boys walking home from school Monday. The principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School emailed details of the incident to the community.
It happened on Colusa Street near Marin Avenue. The boys ran away and did not get a good look at the man, wrote Principal Janet Levenson according to Berkeleyside.
Levenson told parents and guardians to warn children to be vigilant and "make noise and run if they feel someone is approaching them inappropriately."
The incident was reported to the Berkeley Police Department and comes just weeks after an attempted abduction outside an elementary school on March 14. Two men in a green van followed a 9-year-old girl to Malcolm X Elementary School, and one of them got out and tried to grab her. The same vehicle has been described in 5 other attempted abductions in 2015, all of them involving elementary and middle school children.
Police have asked the public to call 510 981-5900 if they see any suspicious activity.
