This afternoon, Friday December 3, 2010 at approximately 12:52 p.m., Portland Police officers responded to the area of Southeast Gladstone Street and Gladstone Drive on the report of an attempted abduction. Officers arrived in the area and contacted the victim, an 8-year-old boy. The victim told police that he was walking to a friend’s house when he was approached on the corner of Southeast Gladstone Street and Gladstone Drive by a van traveling west on Southeast Gladstone Drive. The victim told police that the van pulled up alongside him and that a subject inside opened the sliding door and asked the victim if he wanted to get inside. The victim told police that he refused and that the suspect reached out and tried to grab him. The victim told police that he ran away to a friend’s house in the area then went home where his mother called 9-1-1.
The victim described the suspect vehicle as a dark green full size “work” van with the sliding door on the driver’s side.
The driver was described as a male in a dark ski mask, dark clothes, possibly with hazel eyes.
The person who tried to grab the victim was described as a white male in his 30’s-40’s, medium build, light colored hair, a 2″ or longer goatee, dark clothing, and possibly hazel eyes.
