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Two new Hackensack luring reports linked to Maywood incident

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Distinctive wrinkles in the face of a man whose vehicle police believe they’ve caught on surveillance video provide solid clues in the latest attempted luring, this one yesterday in Hackensack, while raising the possibility for the first time that a serial offender may be at work, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.

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Yesterday’s incident follows one on Thursday in which a Hackensack woman walking her 4-year-old son was approached on foot by a man who kept following and talking to her until she pulled out her cellphone and tried to take his picture.

The woman, who was unaware of the 18 or so incidents reported in the media in recent weeks, said he looked like the same man who approached a teenager in Hackensack yesterday and an 8-year-old girl in Maywood three weeks ago (SEE SKETCH #2, ABOVE).

The 17-year-old girl told Hackensack investigators she was walking south on Main Street near Clinton Place near Sears around 1:30 yesterday when a silver, 4-door vehicle, possibly a Honda CRV, with Jersey license plates, pulled up to her.

The man behind the wheel, who was wearing a black leather jackets and jeans, asked her for the time. She said she looked at her cellphone. It was 1:34.

“She said he was soft-spoken, white, in his 50s to 60s, with blonde hair pulled back into a bushy ponytail,” Detective Niles A. Malvasia told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “He also had bushy eyebrows, blue eyes and a 5 o’clock shadow.”

Because he spoke so softly, Malvasia said, the girl got close enough not only to hear him but to see him clearly (SEE SKETCH #1).

That allowed her to describe distinctive markings on his forehead and around his eyes – the same as in the Maywood incident.

“Why don’t you get in?” she said he asked her.

“She seen everything in the media,” Malvasia told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “So she turned and walked away, then dialed  911.”

Police found a surveillance video of what they believe is the man’s four-door silver vehicle headed south at just about the same time.

Hackensack detectives were already working another case, this one from Thursday.

In that incident, a mother said she was with her son 4-year-old son on Poplar Street when a man came up from behind.

“Hey, can I talk to you? I’m your neighbor. I know,” he told the startled woman.

She kept walking, but “he kept pace with her,” Malvasia said.

“I just want to talk to you,” he insisted.

That’s when, she said, she pulled out her cellphone.

“She said he turned as if to shield his face and then ran down the middle of the block in the opposite direction,” Malvasia told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Once he was gone, she called her mother.

“She told her to look at the sketches in the media stories online,” the detective said.

Like the 17-year-old, she immediately recognized him as the same man from the Oct. 6 Maywood incident, he said.

“It’s the distinctive wrinkles in his forehead and eyes,” Malvasia said.

Both said “they’d know him if they saw him a month from now,” the detective said.

“There’s no reason to believe either of these isn’t telling the truth,” he added.

Malvasia has also been working the Oct. 12 report by an 11-year-old boy of an attempted luring (SEE: Have you seen this man? Hackensack police issue sketch).

The boy told police a motorist pulled up to him near the corner of Union and Sussex streets, asked him where the Costco is, then told him to get into the car.

The boy walked away.

Police have video of the event, taken by a nearby surveillance camera.

The vehicle is a 4-door white or light tan-colored Jeep, with a black top and tinted windows.

They also have a detailed description (SEE SKETCH #2).

“It’s definitely not the same guy” as in the two recent incidents, he said.

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  • YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Anxiety levels are rising amid reports of possible attempted lurings in Bergen County, including one early this morning in Fair Lawn in which neither two children, a witness nor police could say what exactly happened. This comes after two Lyndhurst boys made up a story about a man trying to lure them into his van. READ MORE….


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