Student Looking for Bus Stop Mistaken for Attempted Lurer, Cops Say

The 14-year-old girl who reported to police a Hispanic male may have tried to lure her from a school bus stop Wednesday morning accidentally misidentified the person, Morris Township Police said.

The teen, waiting alone at 6:55 a.m. at a bus stop on Woodland Avenue, said a vehicle parked across the street from her, and a male came out of the passenger side and began to approach her, Chief John McGuinness said Wednesday.

That person approaching her turned out to be a fellow student who missed his bus pick-up for Morristown High School and was hoping to join the girl at her stop, McGuinness said.

“The female did not recognize her fellow student and to err on the side

of being safe she went home to report the unusual behavior to her parents and the police,” McGuinness said in a press release Thursday morning.

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