Suspicious circumstances

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Officers are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying two men after they asked a child to get in their car in Halifax this afternoon. 

At approximately12:20 p.m., a 9-year-old boy was walking in the area of Jubilee Road when two men in a car pulled up beside him. The passenger then asked the boy to get inside the vehicle. The boy ran to a nearby school to notify an adult.   

The driver is described as a biracial man in his late 20s or early 30s, with brown curly hair and brown goatee, wearing a baseball hat and a navy blue sweater with the hood up. The passenger, of the vehicle is described as an Asian man in his late 20s or early 30s, wearing a baseball hat, hooded sweater with grey sleeves, blue body and gray hood, which was pulled up at the time of the incident. The vehicle is described as a black four-door sedan.

Investigators are asking anyone who has any information on this incident to contact police by calling 902-490-5020. Anonymous tips can be sent to Crime Stoppers by calling toll-free 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submitting a secure web tip at www.crimestoppers.ns.ca or texting a tip - Tip 202 + your message to 274637.

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