NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
October 3, 2007
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

SHERIFF’S OFFICE SEARCHES FOR SUSPECTED CHILD ABDUCTOR

SUSPECT LOCATED!!!

          The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man who picked up a young girl from near her bus stop Wednesday morning, drove her around for as much as thirty minutes, then later dropped her off at a convenience store.

          The 7-year old girl appears unharmed. She says the man offered her a ride to school while she was walking to her bus stop in the area of Yancey Street in Ocean City around 7:45 Wednesday morning. She mistook him for a relative and got into the car before realizing he was a stranger.

           The man eventually took the child to the area near the Country Corner Store on Lewis Turner Boulevard and let her out.

            The suspect is described as a white male with curly red hair and a close-shaven mustache. He was wearing a short-sleeved blue shirt with a logo or printing on the top left-hand side. The child says he also had on green shorts with paint on them and short brown boots.

            He was driving a silver or gold colored car with a tan interior.

            Anyone with information is asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Division of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office at 850-609-2000 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at 850-863-TIPS.              

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