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Police seek serial hugger in St. Louis area

  • Published Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at 9:28 a.m.

— Police in the St. Louis area want to question a man who has approached several women and convinced them to give him a hug.

KMOX Radio reports that the man approaches the women in public and claims he and the targeted women are long-lost friends. After a brief conversation he asks for a hug.

Similar incidents have happened at several Schnucks markets over the past several days. When it happened recently at a Schnucks store in Fairview Heights, Ill., the woman called police.

| The Associated Press

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