DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A delivery driver for a Dauphin County business was charged after police say he tried to lure a girl into his vehicle.

Swatara Township Police said in the charges filed that Nestor Monsalve-Prieto , 23, of Harrisburg, tried to get a 12-year-old girl into his car while making a delivery on Thursday, Oct. 3.

According to the criminal complaint, police got a report about a man who tried to lure a girl into his car just after 3:30 p.m. by Brisban and Kelso Streets in Paxtang Borough. After speaking with the girl and a witness who the girl flagged down, police were able to get a description of the suspect, who spoke Spanish, and the direction the vehicle traveled.

Monsalve-Prieto allegedly said to the girl that he needed to tell her something, and when she got closer, police were told he said she needed to get in his vehicle, the charges show.

Police were led to a business where surveillance video captured a silver Honda Accord running a stop sign, and eventually found a vehicle, that matched the suspect’s vehicle, in front of a different business in the 2400 block of Derry Street. According to the complaint, when police asked the owner whose vehicle it was, they said it was Monsalve-Prieto’s, an employee.

The business was not named in the charging documents.

Monsalve-Prieto admitted that was his vehicle and he said hi to the girl, but denied saying anything else. When asked if he usually says hello to people, he said no just her because he thought she was pretty, police said.

Later on, Monsalve-Prieto would admit that he did tell the girl to come here, but still denied telling her to get in, the charges show.

When Monsalve-Prieto gave police an account of where he was driving, police said his story didn’t add up. When he talked about making a delivery, he changed the directions he was going, and he claimed that his sister-in-law called him about needing a key, but there was no proof she contacted him, according to the complaint.

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His story about where he was driving also changed multiple times when questioned about the witness taking a photo of him, police said.

Monsalve-Prieto faces a felony charge of luring a child into a motor vehicle.

He is locked up in Dauphin County Prison, unable to post bail that was set at $250,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30.

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