Carroll County officials have reported another incident of a mysterious man approaching a youth for suspicious reasons.
A teenage boy was walking alone Monday on East Main Street in Westminster, when he was approached by a man driving a small, blue pickup with a matching blue cab in the truck bed, according to a news release from the Carroll County State?s Attorney?s Office.
The pickup driver then attempted to solicit sexual services, but the boy rejected his advances, authorities said.
The truck had agricultural tags beginning with the letter A, and number 2, authorities said. The driver is described as a white male between 35 and 45 years old with a medium build, wearing round glasses.
David Daggett, deputy state?s attorney for Carroll County, said he does not believe the case is related to three earlier instances reported by Sykesville Police, who said a man was attempting to contact young girls while in his car.
In May and April, a man approached middle school girls and offered them rides. In all three incidents, the girls walked to safety and notified authorities, police said.
The suspicious man described in the first three incidents had a slightly different description to the man reported in this week?s Westminster incident.
In those earlier Sykesville incidents, the children described the man as tan, 30 to 40 years old, heavyset, with light brown hair and a neatly trimmed beard and mustache.
Police also said he was operating a late-model, dark blue four-door compact vehicle, unlike the truck used in Westminster this week.
