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Uploaded: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 9:41 AM
Menlo Police look for 'suspicious' man in van
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by Eric Van Susteren
Palo Alto Weekly Staff
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 | Menlo Park Police are looking for a man who tried to communicate with young girls on the 1200 block of Almanor Avenue while they were on their way school on March 11 at 8 a.m.
The man's description and behavior matched that of a man who allegedly exposed himself to a girl in Menlo Park on Feb. 1.
In the recent incident, police said a man in a white work van asked the girls in Spanish if they knew the janitor at Belle Haven School. The girls didn't respond, kept walking and reported the incident to school administrators.
Responding officers were unable to locate the man.
The girls described the man as Hispanic, between 30 and 40 years old, wearing a green and yellow A's baseball hat, green jacket and blue jeans.
The victim from the Feb. 1 incident gave a similar description and also said the alleged flasher approached her in a similar van, at around the same time of day and asked her the same question in Spanish.
In the first incident, police said the man threatened the girl if she told anyone what he'd done.
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Posted by Raymond, a resident of East Palo Alto, on Mar 13, 2013 at 11:17 am "A's" baseball cap. Search the cameras @ Dumbarton bridge. Quite a few incidents on this side of the bay are perpetrated by someone from 'the other side'.
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Posted by mutti, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood, on Mar 13, 2013 at 12:09 pm This article is from Menlo Park Police. Similar van and man have also tried to talk to girls around a couple of schools in East Palo Alto, so police there are working with MP. We need to catch this guy! EPA police put out a flier today through the schools
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Posted by Worried, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 pm Do our girls know what to do if a man like this tries to grab them? I hope all of them are learning self defense.
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Posted by Hmmm, a resident of East Palo Alto, on Mar 17, 2013 at 5:05 pm Only 3 comments?? That's what happens when something happens to lower income people on the east side. I need to remember that in Shallow Alto people get hysterical when their kid steps in dog poop.
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