A Pelly Crossing man is facing charges after an intoxicated male tried to take a little girl by the hand at a downtown laundromat Tuesday evening.

After the man tried to take the eight-year-old girl by the hand inside the Norgetown Laundry on Fourth Avenue, the youngster knocked on the door of the washroom where her mother was.

When the mother exited the washroom and heard from her daughter what had occurred, the mother confronted the man outside the laundromat.

At one point, the intoxicated man tried to kiss the mother. A charge of assault is pending.

'I don't think it was anything other than he was intoxicated and probably trying to befriend her,' Sgt. John Sutherland, a Whitehorse RCMP spokesman, said today of the attempt to take the girl by the hand.

Though police don't believe it was a serious abduction attempt, it's still unacceptable behaviour, Sutherland said.

While the incident was going on, police were already on their way as they'd been called at 9:30 p.m. about a drunk man causing a disturbance at the Yukon Inn across the avenue.

As they were arresting their disturbance suspect, the eight-year-old's father approached officers and told them the man had tried to take his little girl from the laundromat shortly before.

A 40-year-old Pelly Crossing resident was held in RCMP cells overnight for a court appearance earlier this morning.

He faces charges of forcible confinement, assault, causing a disturbance and breach of probation.

Meanwhile, a scrap on a downtown street corner has landed a local man behind bars on cocaine charges.

About a half-hour before midnight Tuesday, police were informed that a fight was going on at Second Avenue and Main Street.

When they arrested one of the combatants, they found a packaged half-gram of cocaine as well as a bag containing a number of wrapped packages containing the drug.

A 33-year-old man was held for court on charges of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

As well, a Porter Creek resident is missing a motor bike. Police were notified Tuesday that a blue 2000 Yamaha YZF600 was taken from the Oak Street home overnight. The bike's Yukon plate is M57836.

As well, employees at The Nest, a used furniture store on Fourth Avenue, discovered a break-in Tuesday morning. Some time overnight or early morning, the glass door was smashed and several CDs and DVDs were taken.

A local fisherman's day on the water was destroyed recently when he returned to his boat the morning after tying it up, only to discover his tackle gone.

Police estimate that between $1,500 and $2,000 worth of gear was stolen around June 21 from the five-metre boat on Fox Lake, about 50 kilometres north of Whitehorse.

The owner had left it tied up overnight on the side of the lake. When he returned the next morning for some more fishing, he found his belongings had been hooked.

Missing are a Hummingbird Model LCR 400 portable fish finder, six fishing rods with reels, a graphite fly rod with pale orange floating line and a Medalist reel in a cloth bag, as well as one large, three-tray, brown Flambeau fishing box containing 40 to 50 lures, scales and a sharpener.

Also gone is a large, clear Tupperware tray full of halibut hooks, leaders, weights, floats and swivels. A smaller, flat Tupperware tray with fly fishing gear also had three new Tri Lene spools of six- and eight-pound test line.

Two items stolen that are particularly distinctive are a limited-edition belt knife from Winchester with the company name engraved on the blade and the brown leather case.

Also taken was a new, brown suede Australian large-brim hat. It's the only one the owner knows of in Whitehorse, Sutherland said Tuesday.

The boat had been covered with a canvas cover and much of the gear was tucked out of sight, so the thieves clearly had to go rifling through the boat, Sutherland said.

Meanwhile, a family of Texans visiting the territory was involved in a crash on the North Klondike Highway earlier this week. Few details about the crash were available, but four people were taken to Whitehorse General Hospital.

A 58-year-old woman was admitted with a fractured right collarbone. Both she and a 34-year-old woman, who suffered multiple soft tissue injuries, are still in the hospital in stable condition.

A 38-year-old man was treated for soft tissue injuries and released, along with an eight-year-old girl who had soft tissue injuries to her back.