Sex offender tries to lure 14-year-old into car as she gets off school bus, NC cops say
A sex offender tried kidnapping a 14-year-old after she was dropped off by her school bus, North Carolina cops say.
The teen got off the bus in Fayetteville on Tuesday and was walking toward her house when a car that had passed her turned around and drove back toward her, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
The driver pulled up beside her and asked her for directions, the sheriff’s office says.
The teen told the man she couldn’t help and tried to keep walking toward her house. But the man suggested she get in the car with him, the sheriff’s office says.
He then seemed to start getting out of his car, so the teen ran toward her house, the sheriff’s office says.
Based on the teen’s description of the man, detectives with the sheriff’s office identified him as 34-year-old Nathan Lynn Cooley, the sheriff’s office says.
Cooley is a registered sex offender who lives in Fayetteville, according to the sheriff’s office, and he was wearing a GPS monitor during the incident.
He had previously been convicted of attempted rape, indecent liberties with a minor and kidnapping, according to the North Carolina sex offender registry.
He was arrested for the incident on Tuesday and charged with attempted second-degree kidnapping, the sheriff’s office says. He was given a $250,000 secured bond.
This story was originally published February 5, 2020 at 12:48 PM with the headline "Sex offender tries to lure 14-year-old into car as she gets off school bus, NC cops say."
