Suspicious man tried to make contact with girl at bus stop in Independence Township

INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, MI -- A 9-year-old girl told the Oakland County Sheriff's Office that a suspicious man tried to make contact with her at the bus stop on Wednesday morning, according to a press release.

It is the second time in the past month that she has seen the man, police say.

The girl was at the bus stop around 8 a.m. in the area of Cranberry Lake and Brookwood, which is near M-15 and I-75. She said a man pulled up to the bus stop and began looking at her. He then got out of his vehicle and began walking toward her, but the bus came before he could make contact, according to police.

The girl told her mother when she got home from school. The other incident happened about a month ago, police said.

The man is 50 or 60 and last seen wearing a Detroit
Tiger's baseball hat, grey sweat shirt and blue jeans. He was driving an older model two-door pickup truck, light blue in
color. The truck was described as rusty and dented