WYNDANCH, N.Y. (1010 WINS) — Police arrested a man on Monday after he tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his vehicle on Long Island, Suffolk County officials announced.
At approximately 3:05 p.m. an 11-year-old girl was walking on Patton Avenue, near 26th Street in Wyandanch, when a man in a 2007 gray Chevrolet stopped and asked her multiple times to get into his car.
According to police, the man, later identified as Galo Macasfreire, 38, was offering the girl candy that was being rubbed near his genitals in exchange for getting into the car.
Macasfreire was arrested at 3:30 p.m. on the same street.
He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and is scheduled to be arraigned in Central Islip on Tuesday.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact the First Precinct at 631-854-8100.
