NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) -
Police in New Britain have stepped up patrols after an attempted kidnapping was reported on Friday morning.
Around 8 a.m., an 12-year-old girl said she was walking to a bus stop for the Metacomet Ridge Interdistrict Academy Summer Program in the area of Park Drive and Uncas Road when an older man driving a minivan approached her.
The victim said she ignored the man and he drove off. However, police said, he made a U-turn and went back towards her direction.
The man then got out of the minivan telling her he had a movie for her, and the girl ran away and called police.
Camp counselors said she did the right thing.
"If something like that happened again to one of us, that we should do the same thing that she did and never stop and talk," said Tahjae Barrett.
A security camera on a nearby home caught a glimpse of the vehicle and of the young girl running away from it.
The vehicle is described as a gray minivan that was very dirty around the bottom. The victim also stated that the driver had to reach outside the door to use the exterior handle to exit the vehicle.
Anyone who may have seen anything in the area at the time of the incident is asked to call police at 860-826-3135.
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