Authorities in Southeast Texas say a man and woman have been trying to lure schoolchildren into a van by promising them candy or a box of puppies.

Cleveland ISD police announced Tuesday that they are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.

According to police, children in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Cleveland, which is about 45 miles northeast of Houston, have reported that a man, sometimes accompanied by a woman, has approached them in a white panel van with tinted windows and cardboard where the license plate should be.

The pair have tried to get the children into the van by promising them "a box of puppies" or the "gift of candy," police said.

All of the students have safely run from the van.

Rex Evans, chief of the Cleveland ISD police, told KTRK-TV that a number of children, some of whom don't know one another, gave similar descriptions of their encounters.

"These individuals who do this normally aren't necessarily trying to commit some type of illegal or immoral act," he told the station. "Unfortunately, though, there is so much consistency in the statements from all of these children that it leads one to believe that their motives are certainly illegal."