Police have charged a Hispanic male with luring a 12-year-old girl into his truck while it was parked across from the YMCA

The man, Adrian Arriaga Castro, pulled up to the girl in his truck and opened the passenger’s side door and gestured for her to get in. The girl entered the vehicle and stated that Castro began to talk to her and called her “pretty,” then began to rub her arm. She exited the truck as her mother arrived and Castro ran in the direction of 345 West Third Street. Police arrived at the apartment building to investigate; a Hispanic male approached officers outside of the building. The girl pointed at Castro and police confirmed his identity via his Mexican identification cards; Castro was taken into custody and faces one misdemeanor charge of luring a child into a motor vehicle and one summary charge of harassment. Additionally, it was discovered that Castro is a Mexican national and has no papers to prove that he is in the United States legally.