University of Colorado police are searching for a suspect in a strong-arm robbery near the Engineering Center on the Boulder campus late Saturday.

Police say the suspect, described as an approximately 26-year-old transient, approached a male CU student around 11:45 p.m. in Parking Lot 437 just north of the Engineering Center, near the southwest corner of Regent Drive and Colorado Avenue.

The suspect asked the student for a cigarette, and offered him drugs, police said in a news release.

The student declined both requests, police said, and the suspect pushed him to the ground, at which point the student dropped his wallet and phone. The suspect took both items, and ran south.

The student suffered minor injuries.

Police described the suspect as a 6-foot-3-inch-tall white male with a red beard and thin build. He was wearing a gray beanie, black “bomber-style” leather jacket, gray sweatpants and basketball shorts, and beige Timberland boots, according to CU police.

Anyone with information is asked to call the CU Police Department at 303-492-6666.