Police release sketch of kidnap suspect
By Camera staff
July 14, 2002
LAFAYETTE — Police have released a sketch of a man who tried to carry off a 12-year-old girl at the Kneebone Open Space on Friday evening.
The girl put up a fight and was able to escape the abductor's grasp. Police said because the man carried her about 80 feet toward some bushes and trees before she broke free, he could face a charge of kidnapping.
"She slapped him in the face and kicked him in the groin," Lafayette police Sgt. Fred Palmer said Saturday.
The man also kicked at the girl's dog, which had made aggressive moves toward him, Palmer said.
He said the girl was so shaken by the incident that it took her about an hour to calm down enough to describe her assailant to police.
"It's a pretty scary thing to be picked up by a stranger and carried off," he said.
Since the incident was reported, police have received numerous tips, but nothing that has panned out.
Authorities said a man grabbed the girl from behind at 6:30 p.m. as she and two friends were playing in the open space area at 111th Street and Arapahoe Road. The friends were not near the girl at the time.
Late Friday night, Lafayette police, members of the Boulder Emergency Squad and Lafayette volunteer firefighters canvassed the neighborhoods near the area.
The girl described her attacker as white, 30 to 40 years old, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and with a thin build and pot belly. He had dark-brown, greasy, shoulder-length hair and a long mustache with goatee, and he was wearing heavy dark-framed prescription glasses with tinted lenses that covered his eyebrows, according to the description.
He was wearing a black pocket T-shirt, very tight blue jeans and black hiking boots, and he smelled strongly of tobacco smoke, the victim told police.
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