Posted: Sep 10, 2012 1:36 PM by Elaine Sheridan
Updated: Sep 10, 2012 8:57 PM
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man that may have tried to kidnap a 12-year old boy this morning.
According to Lt. Jeff Kramer with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, the boy was on Cabellero Ave. near Grand Peak in Security-Widefield around 6:40 a.m. when a man grabbed him and tried to get in a car. The boy got away, but told investigators the man claimed to be armed.
The suspect has been described as a heavy-set white man, 6 feet tall with a potbelly, mostly bald with a ring of gray hair. The suspect was wearing a brown and white short-sleeved plaid shirt and faded jeans. The vehicle was a faded red late 90s-early 2000s 2-door Pontiac, license plate beginning with the number 6.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at 390-5555