Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man after a four-year-old boy was grabbed while he was shopping with his mother at a Hawkesbury shopping centre today.
Police have been told that about 12.10pm (Friday 9 August 2019), a man approached the pair in the carpark of the shopping centre and attempted to lift the boy up and away from his mother. His mother yelled out and the man ran into the March Street, Richmond complex.
She reported the incident to centre management who alerted police.
The man was described as aged in his late 50s, with a medium build, chubby face, clean shaven, short brown/grey curly hair, dark round eyes and large lips.
Officers from Hawkesbury Police Area Command are appealing to anyone who might have witnessed or captured the incident on dashcam to contact them.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or . Information is treated in strict confidence.
