N.S. RCMP looking for man who allegedly offered kids chocolate in Pictou

A sign for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is pictured on June 23, 2025. (CTV Atlantic / Avery MacRae)

The Nova Scotia RCMP is looking for a man who allegedly approached two children in Pictou on Wednesday.

Police say a man in a vehicle allegedly approached the children on School Street around 4:30 p.m. The man told the children their grandmother had sent him to pick them up and he then offered them chocolate.

The children declined and the vehicle left, travelling towards Faulkland Street, according to an RCMP news release.

The suspect is described as a white man in his forties with black and grey hair. He has a black-ink tattoo on his left arm and was driving a black truck.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call police at 902-485-4333, or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or at www.crimestoppers.ns.ca.

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