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

The young 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 to reporters Tuesday, as white and in his 30s. He was reportedly wearing a dark jacket with a gray or white "horizontal stripe," Minneapolis deputy police Chief Kris Arneson said at an afternoon press conference at police headquarters. A police spokesman previously described the man as having "possibly ruddy or pockmarked, splotchy complexion."

He was reportedly driving a dark green small or midsize sedan, police said.

Arneson, who was flanked by several homicide detectives, declined to comment on any specifics of the investigation, but said that police were still actively investigating.

The girl had been playing with friends not far from her home, at a park on the 3100 block of James Avenue N., when the man approached them around 3 p.m. Saturday, a police spokesman said.

Police said that the victim recounted being taken to a house with two large dogs, one white and one black.