10-year-old Pasco girl says stranger told her to get in vehicle, offered candy, ice cream

MOON LAKE, Fla. (WFLA) – The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office has issued a safety alert for citizens in the Moon Lake area.

According to the sheriff’s office, on Monday around 5 p.m., a 10-year-old girl reported a man in a tan, four-door vehicle with no license plate pulled up to her at the intersection of Banbury Avenue and Cardy Street.

The suspect told the girl to get in the vehicle and that he was friends with her mother and he was going to take her to get candy and ice cream.

The victim described the man as a black male, medium skin tone, in his 20s with black hair and brown eyes.

The girl said the man had corn rows pulled back into a “ball” and facial hair “stubble.”

He was wearing a red tank top, black shorts, gold chains (with a dollar sign pendant) and had a tattoo on his upper right arm of a naked woman.

The girl told the suspect she was going to call 911 if he didn’t leave her alone.

The suspect drove westbound on Banbury Avenue, away from the victim.

Anyone who knows who the suspect is should call the Pasco Sheriff’s Office Crime Tips Line at 1-800-706-2488 and reference case #18-47322.