Deputies are looking for a man who may have attempted to lure a 12-year-old boy away from his home Friday, authorities said.
Shortly before 3 p.m. while waiting for his parents to get home, the boy was sitting on his front porch in the 2200 block of West Dakota Street, near West Irvington and South Mission Road, said Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman, Deputy Ryan Inglett.
A man driving past the house stopped his car and asked the boy if anyone else was home. After initially answering the man's question, the boy became suspicious when the man told him that he'd been sent by the boy's mother, Inglett said.
When the suspect began to get out of his car, the boy ran from the area and found help. The suspect fled the scene, driving westbound on Dakota, Inglett said.
The boy provided detectives with a very detailed description of the man, who is described as being about 40 years old, bald with a goatee and having a colorful full-sleeve tattoo on his right arm. He was last seen wearing a light blue polo shirt, jeans with a hole near the right knee, Nike running shoes and a black Washington Nationals baseball hat.
The vehicle he was driving was described as a dark green older model four-door sedan with a missing hubcap on the rear driver's side wheel, peeling paint on the roof and window tint that is worn and bubbling.
Anyone with information about the incident or the suspect's identity is urged to call 911, or submit an anonymous tip by text, email or phone to 88-CRIME.
