Several recent reports of attempted child lurings prompted police officers from different departments to meet Wednesday and share information to aid their investigations, said Mt. Lebanon Lt. Aaron Lauth.

Since it was an investigative meeting, Lt. Lauth said he did not have much for public release, but he said representatives from police departments in Mt. Lebanon, Dormont, North Fayette, Pittsburgh and Allegheny County attended.

"A big thing with police work is sharing of information," Lt. Lauth said. The police departments will work together to investigate multiple reports of attempted lurings, he said. Similar descriptions have been provided of the driver and vehicle in the incidents, though Lt. Lauth said police could not say for sure whether or not the driver and the vehicle were the same in each incident.

After incidents in Mt. Lebanon, Dormont, North Fayette and Carnegie, police are on the lookout for a man driving a white minivan with a black stripe. Lt. Lauth said people have called in reporting vans, but said the descriptions in the Mt. Lebanon incidents have been specifically about minivans. The driver of the minivan has been described as a heavy-set white man, 60 to 70 years old, balding, with white hair and no facial hair or glasses.

"The fact that we've had multiple incidents in different communities, where it seems to be a similar description of the vehicle and the actor, is unusual," he said.

The Bethel Park School District on Wednesday alerted parents about a possible luring attempt Tuesday afternoon involving a Neil Armstrong Middle School sixth grader, who reported being followed by a man in a white van after getting off a school bus.

No verbal or physical contact was made between the van driver and the student, who reported the incident to an adult who contacted police.

A suspected luring of a 12-year-old girl as she was walking on Robb Hollow Road in Mt. Lebanon Monday turned out to be a misunderstanding, police said Wednesday. A man told the girl, who was walking home from Jefferson Middle School, to "Come here," and she ran away. Police later identified and spoke to the man, who said he had approached the girl because he believed she was walking in an unsafe manner.

Police determined that no criminal intent was involved. But police said the girl acted appropriately because the incident followed a series of other recent attempted lurings in the region.

Lt. Lauth said he encouraged people to stay alert and keep an eye on children walking to and from school. In case of future incidents, he said people should try to note the license plate number.