LAKEPORT, Calif. – Police are investigating another report of a Lakeport child being followed home from school by a stranger, although officials don't believe the two cases are connected.
The most recent incident was reported on Tuesday, according to acting Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.
Rasmussen gave the Lakeport City Council an update on the situation at its meeting Tuesday night.
He said that a juvenile male and his mother contacted the Lakeport Police Department at around 4 p.m. Tuesday to make the report.
The boy was reportedly followed home about an hour and a half earlier in the area of Anastasia Drive and Hartley Street, Rasmussen said.
Police spent the afternoon investigating the report. Rasmussen said they immediately notified the Lakeport Unified School District and School Resource Officer Stephanie Green.
“We will do whatever we can to hopefully track down this individual,” Rasmussen told the council.
In a report released early Wednesday, Sgt. Jason Ferguson – who led the investigation – said the male juvenile was in the 800 block of Anastasia Drive when he saw a male subject who he believed was following him.
The boy described the subject as a middle-aged white male adult with very short brown hair, approximately 6 feet, 1 inches tall, and weighing 160 pounds. Ferguson said the man was last seen wearing a light blue, long-sleeved shirt and white shorts.
The previous report of a child being followed was made on Jan. 6 and involved a girl, as Lake County News has reported.
That child, followed home in the vicinity of Green Street – which an online map estimated is about a half a mile from the Anastasia Drive area – reported being trailed by a white male adult of average height and weight, with short brown hair, in his 30s, wearing dark clothing and sandals, police said.
Although the two incidents appear to be unrelated, both subjects are being sought for questioning and identification, Ferguson said.
Anyone with information leading to the possible identity of the subjects seen Tuesday and Jan. 6 is asked to contact the Lakeport Police Department, 707-263-5491.
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