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CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police have issued a community alert about the attempted kidnapping Tuesday of a girl on the Southwest Side.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, police say the 14-year-old girl was walking at 45th Street and Kedzie Avenue, in the Brighton Park neighborhood, when a man asked her in Spanish to go with him and grabbed for her backpack.
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The suspect is believed to have been between 30 and 40 years old with an olive complexion, a black mustache, and missing front teeth.
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Anyone with information is asked to call Area Central police detectives at (312) 747-8380.
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