Reading police investigating attempted abduction

By Jillian Jorgensen, Globe Correspondent

Police are looking for a man who attempted to abduct a child in Reading Friday afternoon.

The attempted abduction happened at about 4 p.m. in the Walnut Street area, a police dispatcher said. The suspect was driving a dark red Jeep Cherokee with baseball-sized dents and rust spots in the back corners and rear wheel wells.

Police are looking for the driver. They described him as a white male, aged 60 to 70, with a thin build, who was wearing a black T-shirt and had a raspy voice.

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