By Jim Patten
Staff Writer
May 09, 2008 12:15 am LAWRENCE — Police are seeking the man they say tried to pull a 13-year-old girl into his car as the seventh-grader walked to Frost School yesterday morning. Deputy police Chief Michael Driscoll said the girl told police she was walking up the left side of Bowdoin Street, near Clifton Street, when a red car came up beside her on the wrong side of the road. The girl said the driver reached out and tried grabbing her but she pulled away, Driscoll said. She told police the man started to say something to her but she started walking into a yard so he would think she lived there, and he drove away. She told police when she started walking to school again, the man drove by her slowly two more times, and she reported the incident when she got to school. Driscoll said a photo array of possible suspects was assembled by Officer Eugene Scanlon, head of the sex offender unit, but she was unable to pick him out. She also was shown a photo array that was put together for an earlier case, but again, could not pick the suspect out. The driver was described as a light-skinned male with a round face and no facial hair, wearing a black T-shirt and baseball cap, driving a red, four-door car, possibly a Honda Accord. Driscoll said the investigation continues and police would add extra marked and unmarked patrols.
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