Crime & Safety
Suspicious Man Near School Bus Stop Tries Luring Child
A Tinley Park dad filed a report at the police department last week saying that a strange man was waiting behind his son's bus stop.
A local father stopped in the on Friday to report that the day before, his 10-year-old son noticed a strange man parked near his school bus stop.
The man was sitting in a blue vehicle around 3:50 p.m. in the 7000 block of West 170th Street, just behind the bus drop-off, the father told police.
When the boy got off the bus, the man waved at him and motioned for him to come over. The boy then ran to his nearby apartment, where his older sister buzzed him in.
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The sister, who was watching from inside the apartment, said she saw the man motion to her brother from inside the car. The man then got out of the car and again motioned for the boy to come over by the car, the sister told her dad.
"The driver of the vehicle then reached into the backseat of the vehicle and grabbed a football and tossed it on the front lawn of the apartment building and then left the area," the report said.
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The man was described as Hispanic and about 40 years old. Extra patrol was requested for the area.
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