NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A New Smyrna Beach Middle School student told Volusia County Sheriff's deputies that a man tried to lure her into the woods while she was walking to school Thursday morning near South Myrtle Avenue.
She described the man as white with bushy eyebrows and wearing a red shirt and blue jeans while standing near the woods near the Newport Sound Apartments.
Deputies were assisted in a search of the nearby woods by numerous New Smyrna Beach police units, but the man was not located.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the Sheriff's District 5 headquarters in New Smyrna Beach at (386) 423-3352.