A sharp-eared citizen contacted JCSO dispatch at
about 6 p.m. on Oct. 9 to report a suspicious incident she’d witnessed at
Safeway. She told deputies that, while dropping off a passenger at the
Evergreen Parkway grocery, she observed a girl of possibly 9 years standing on
the sidewalk near the entrance. Suddenly, a 35-ish man wearing a “Little Bear”
T-shirt emerged from the store and, passing by the girl in a suspicious manner,
suspiciously looked down and told her “you look nice.” He then suspiciously
continued into the parking lot, got into his car suspiciously, and suspiciously
drove away. The girl, perhaps stunned by the encounter, waited a few moments
and then wandered back inside. The girl could not be located for interview. The
witness provided officers with the suspicious man’s license plate number, but a
check with dispatch turned up nothing suspicious.