SEQUIM — Police have no new leads in the investigation into a reported child abduction attempt, the Sequim police chief said.
Chief Bill Dickinson said Friday his department is exhaustively investigating the report of a 10-year-old boy confronted by a knife-wielding man in a Sequim neighborhood last Monday but had nothing new.
The Peninsula Daily News is not identifying the boy because he is a juvenile.
Christina Arriola, the boy’s mother, said that Monday evening, her son bit the hand of a masked man trying to pull him into a van in an alley in the 300 block of West Pine Street and ran screaming from him.
Arriola said her son was playing in Margaret Kirner Park at Fourth and Pine streets with other children a little before 8 p.m. when he saw the family cat dart down the alley and went after it.
As her son was picking up the cat, he was accosted by a man in a dark-colored van, possibly with purple rims, Arriola said.
The man — reportedly brandishing a knife — donned a ski mask, grabbed the boy and put his hand over the boy’s mouth while attempting to push him into the van, she said.
The boy said the man was fat, had tattoos on his arms and was wearing a black shirt and pants with white shoes, his mother said.
The man was older, but the boy did not know how old, Arriola said, adding that he did see his face briefly before the man pulled down the ski mask.
Police have not released a description of the man or his vehicle because of conflicting statements given by a second child at the scene.
