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Updated: 5/9/2008 2:47:44 PM
Police looking for man who poked 8-year-old girl
LINCOLN PARK — Police are looking for a man who allegedly poked an 8-year-old girl in the arm with a needle before trying to abduct her at about 7 p.m. Thursday.

According to police, the man tried to pull the girl into a van at Lincoln Park Mobile Home Village, 3075 Dix-Toledo. When she screamed, he drove off.

A short while later, he was seen riding in an older model, two-door gray car being driven by a woman.

The suspect is described as white with a medium skin tone, 40 to 50 years old, 6 feet tall and weighing 230 pounds. He has shoulder-length, salt-and-pepper hair and a moustache.

The van he was driving is a white, older model in poor condition, possibly a 1990s conversion van with a rusted bottom. The vehicle has black, plastic covering a rear compartment window and an old English “D” or a dollar sign spray painted on the rear of the vehicle.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 1-313-381-1800 ext. 222 or to email policetip@citylp.com.

The child is reportedly doing fine after being treated at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

— Jason Alley

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