The Reading School District has alerted parents of city schoolchildren to two more reports of attempted abductions.
The latest, reported to the district Friday morning, happened Thursday afternoon as a student was walking home from 13th and Green Elementary School.
The boy said two men were parked in a green and red van on Green Street when one of them rolled down the passenger-side window and told him they were there to pick him up and that they knew his parents' names.
When the men failed to provide the parents' correct names, the boy ran home, officials said.
The other incident was reported to have happened Thursday morning outside Millmont Elementary School.
Two girls were playing in the snow in the 400 block of Belvedere Avenue around 8:10 a.m. when a man tried waving them over from across the street, according to police.
The frightened girls ran inside the school and the man walked away, police said.
The man was described as possibly being Latino, about 40 years old and about five feet, seven inches tall with a slender build. He was wearing a black jacket with the hood up, jeans and a black beanie.
These are the latest in a series of reported abduction attempts in Berks County in recent weeks, including one that was reported Wednesday morning at Lancaster and Hoover avenues in Reading.
A 13-year-old girl waiting for her school bus reported being asked to get in a man's green SUV. The man drove away when the bus approached, police said.
A community forum on the reported abduction attempts is set for 6 p.m. Friday at the Police Athletic League's Center for the Arts, 325 Walnut St., Reading. It's organized by the Olivet Boys and Girls Club.
In the meantime, parents and their children are encouraged to view safety tips in a video message recorded Thursday by Berks County Sheriff Eric Weaknecht in English and Berks County Deputy Sheriff Doris Natal in Spanish.
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