BLUEFIELD —
Officers with the Bluefield Police Department were called to investigate a report of an attempted child abduction in a residential section of the city, according to Lt. C.S. Myers.
“We received a call at about 10:30 a.m., (Wednesday) about a vehicle with two, white male subjects, both with facial hair, who approached a child and asked the child to get in the vehicle,” Myers said. “We get reports similar to this one occassionally, and we always respond to them immediately. We take these reports seriously.”
Myers said that Patrolman A.B. Palmer and Cpl. J.T. Brooks responded to the neighborhood, spoke with the family, put out a BOLO (Be On the Lookout) for a blue Jeep with two male subjects and an unknown license plate.
“Palmer and Brooks searched the area, but they did not find a vehicle of that description,” Myers said. “The child did the right thing by refusing to enter the vehicle with strangers.”
Myers said the child that reported the attempt is a 12-year-old male.
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