Police investigate suspicious incident

MARLBORO – Police are investigating an incident in which an adult male is reported to have approached a child on the afternoon of March 4 on Dunn Drive.

Dunn Drive is off Route 520, about 1,400 feet east of Route 79.

According to a letter that Marlboro Superintendent of Schools David Abbott sent home to parents onMarch 5, at about 4:30 p.m.March 4 a whitemale between 40 and 50 years old approached a 10-year-old boy who was playing outside his home.

The man was described in Abbott’s letter as having short brownish-gray hair, being unshaven, wearing dark brown sunglasses and speaking with a raspy voice.

The man was reported to be driving an older-model maroon black-top Corvette convertible, possibly a Stingray, with tinted windows, black interior and a clear plastic license plate cover.

Abbott encouraged parents to remind their children about “stranger danger” with the coming of warmer weather and because children will be playing outside. He said staff members at Marlboro’s schools will also remind children about “stranger danger.”

The letter said police have increased patrols in the area and expect to continue those patrols.

Marlboro Detective Lt. Frederick Reck told the News Transcript onMarch 10 that police are unclear as to exactly what took place on Dunn Drive. He said the youngster could not clearly understand what the man was saying and ran into his house.

Reck said police investigated the incident to make certain that everything that could be done was done in this instance.