(KNSI) — The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find a suspicious person who approached a group of kids waiting for their school bus.
Investigators say at about 8:30 a.m. on May 18th, a man in a white minivan stopped at a school bus stop in Watab Township and conversed with the children waiting there. He never threatened them or asked them to get into his van. The kids told police the man asked them where they went to school and informed them that he had been the principal of Rice Elementary School for 43 years.
Investigators confirmed with the school district that he was never the principal there.
The children described the man as being about 60 to 70 years old, overweight, with gray to white colored hair.
The sheriff’s office is seeking the public’s help in identifying this person or learning of any other similar suspicious incidents involving this person. Anyone with information about this incident or the suspects is asked to contact the Benton County Sheriff’s Office at (320) 968-7201 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at (800) 255-1301 or by clicking here.
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