Suffolk County Police today arrested a man after he tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his vehicle in Wyandanch this afternoon.
An 11-year-old Wyandanch girl was walking on Patton Avenue, near 26th Street, at approximately 3:05 p.m., when a man in a 2007 gray Chevrolet stopped and asked her multiple times to get into his car. The man, later identified as Galo Macasfreire, 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.
Macasfreire, 38, of 21 South 31st St., Wyandanch, was charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child. He is being held overnight at the First Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on January 28.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact the First Precinct at 631-854-8100.