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Minneapolis police release blurry image of suspect in girl's kidnapping

By Libor Jany

December 10, 2014 at 11:13AM

In a photo taken from surveillance video, Minneapolis police said the suspect is white, in his mid-30s and was wearing a dark jacket with horizontal stripe, possibly gray or white, across the chest. He was driving a dark green small or mid-size four-door car with two dogs. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspected kidnapper who apparently lured a 7-year-old north Minneapolis girl into his car over the weekend by asking her to help him "find his puppy."

The girl was found walking about 2½ blocks from home nearly two hours after her disappearance, apparently after being dropped off by the suspect.

Police described the wanted man, whose blurry image was captured on a neighbor's surveillance camera and handed out Tuesday, as white and in his 30s. He was wearing a dark jacket with a gray or white horizontal stripe, Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Kris Arneson said.

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Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.