San Diego County sheriff’s deputies are looking for two men who tried to pick up a girl walking home from school less than two miles from the site of a similar incident reported three weeks earlier.
Deputies say a 12-year-old girl using crutches was walking home from The Heights Charter school on Tuesday, Sept. 30 when she was approached by two men in a black, four-door Ford Escort.
She said they stopped near the intersection of South Grade Road and Sun Haven Road just before 3:30 p.m. and offered her a ride to Grant Street.
The girl said no but the driver was insistent, deputies said, claiming he had just had knee replacement surgery.
After the girl said no several times, the men drove away.
The driver was described as Caucasian, in his 70s with gray hair wearing a white T-shirt, baseball cap, clip-on sunglasses and jean shorts with a scar on his upper lip.
The passenger was described as Caucasian, in his 60s with brown and gray hair and freckles all over his face wearing yellow shirt. Deputies released a sketch of the passenger.
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On Sept. 12, a girl was walking home from from the Alpine Youth Center when someone in a gray, four-door car tried to lure her into the car, deputies said. That incident happened on Arnold Way about two miles east of the Sept. 30 incident. Deputies say it does not appear the two attempts are related.
Anyone with information should call Detective Dan Barnes at (619) 659‐2612 or the Sheriff's Department at (858) 565‐5200. You can also remain anonymous and be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. Call Crime Stoppers at (888) 580‐8477.
