A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct after authorities say he tried to lure young girls into his vehicle in Yakima last month.

Police spokesman Mike Bastinelli says a tip from Yakima Valley Community College about a similar incident led police to the suspect, who's being held in the Yakima city jail. Bastinelli says the suspect was parking his maroon Nissan Maxima near a high school or YVCC, then waiting for students who were walking to and from school.

"And when the females would get close he would either open the car door or exit the vehicle and make sexually suggestive hand movements under his clothes." He says when the man was arrested Wednesday, police found he was on probation for indecent exposure for a prior incident in the city last year.

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