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Laurel Teen Hides in Closet From Stranger Man orders girl into car at bus stop

Updated 10:30 PM EDT, Thu, Dec 4, 2008

A man followed a 15-year-old girl into her Laurel house after she refused to get into his car Monday morning, the teen told police.

A man followed a 15-year-old girl into her Laurel house after she refused to get into his car Monday morning, the teen told police.

 

LAUREL, Md. -- A man followed a 15-year-old girl into her Laurel house after she refused to get into his car Monday morning, the teen told police.
 
The teen was waiting for the school bus at Fourth and Montgomery streets when a man in a pickup truck drove and told her to get in, she told police. She refused and ran to her nearby home and hid in a closet.

Laurel Teen Hides in Closet From Stranger

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A Laurel teenager told police she hid in her closet from a man who followed her from the school bus stop.

 
The girl forgot to lock the door, and the man entered the house and began to look for, saying, "I told you to get in the car," according to the Laurel Police Department.
 
When the girl's mother returned to the home several hours later, she found her daughter still hiding in the closet. The man no longer was there.
 
He was described as Hispanic with dark and a moustache and driving a royal blue pickup truck with an open bed described as having sparkling paint.
 
Anyone with information about the case should call police at 301-498-0092.

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  • fed up Monday, Dec 8 at 1:48 PM FLAG COMMENT DC native is right working at the courts I saw thousands of illegals in there for crimes commited in this area. Illegals are not just Hispanics but people who are here in this country illegally period. Look at the crimes just in the last two months, a 14 year old boy killed at a bus stop, an elderly lady burned alive, two elderly people beaten to death in DC who helped a huge amount of people in their community of every race ... MORE >
  • JF Friday, Dec 5 at 11:22 PM FLAG COMMENT I am good friends with the girl in this article and her family - "girl" is to be applauded, for she did everything right, starting by yelling NO at the guy and then running away. Is that not the first step in basic self defense? She ran to a safe place - her house. In panic, she didn't lock the door behind her, but the guy was set enough in his ways that he would have broken it down. She was not idly talking to a friend on tha ... MORE >
  • Steve Friday, Dec 5 at 8:50 PM FLAG COMMENT Hey Dc Native: Look at the statistics of crime in your own Washington DC.....most crimes are committed by Blacks.....I urge you to checks the statistics. C'mon folks, let's educate ourselves a little more.
  • duh! Friday, Dec 5 at 7:30 PM FLAG COMMENT Hey "LINDA: when was the last time your life was in danger......this is not some movie! This is the real thing! Don't judge until you are put in a situtation like that, until then you have no idea what you would do! I am glad the girl is alive because she was indeed very smart! SHE DID NOT I REPEAT NOT GET IN THE CAR! ACTUALLY VERY BRIGHT! because the outcome would have been very different.
  • dcnative Friday, Dec 5 at 2:47 PM FLAG COMMENT yeah hispanics are one of the largest groups of minorities and they are starting to have more crime sprees then any other minority! try going to the court house and see how many of them NON ENGLISH speaking thugs are there! it sad and ridiculous if they claim to have come here to "live a good life" dont start by being a nuisance to society! they have gangs and all kinds of stuff going on! send them back to where they came from ... MORE >

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