By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Three times this week, a different teenage boy waiting at a different school bus stop in Rochester has had a motorist stop and tell him he’s missed his bus and offer him a ride to school.
It happened most recently early this morning on 183rd Avenue Southwest by the bus barn, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office is asking the public to be vigilant.
All have occurred between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., but the vehicles described are different; and the drivers have been said to be both male and female, sheriff’s Lt. Cliff Ziesemer said this morning.
The sheriff’s office has deputies in the areas in the mornings and expect to continue through at least Monday, trying to intercept another such incident, according to Ziesemer.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Brady said this morning a teen was waiting for a bus when a smaller black vehicle came down his driveway, and he was contacted.
Students and parents need to be alert and aware, and if possible wait in groups for the school busses, Brady said. And please call right way if something similar happens again, Brady urged.
“The faster these reports get to us, the faster we can get in the area,” he said.
The first one was reported to authorities on Tuesday, in which a 13-year-old boy told his mother that a woman in a black sport utility vehicle approached him while he waited for his bus about 6:30 a.m. on Monday at the 9700 block of 180th Way Southwest.
The Rochester School District [1] has been passing along information on its Facebook page, as it has gotten reports from law enforcement.