Failed Calion kidnapping attempt has UCSO on alert

An 8-year-old Calion girl playing in the area of Epps and Davis streets was the subject of a possible kidnapping attempt on Saturday, according to a Union County Sheriff’s Office report.

A deputy responded to a residence in the 200 block of Landing Street at about 6:30 p.m. where a woman advised her niece was playing outside at 5 p.m. when a black man in a red truck with dark tinted windows drove up, brandished a knife and told her he would kill her if she didn’t get in the vehicle.

The man is described as slender and in his mid- to late-20s. According to the girl’s report, the suspect was not wearing a shirt, had panty hose on his head, had silver teeth, and the knife had a red handle with a black blade.