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player ready...A Willow Springs man is charged with attempted kidnapping after two girls reported being approached by a man Monday in Hickory Hills, police said.
Nicholas P. Hayes, 28, is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing Friday at the Cook County Courthouse in Bridgeview.
Police were called to a shopping center near 95th Street and Roberts Road at 12:30 p.m. after a report one girl had been approached by a man demanding she get into his car, said Hickory Hills police Chief Adam Gulczynski.
When the girl said she was a minor, the man got out of his vehicle and chased her untll a bystander intervened, police said.
Later Monday, a 14-year-old girl at the same shopping center was asked by a man to get into his vehicle, but he left when the girl called for help, police said.
Hayes was identified after surveillance footage showed the silver Hyundai SUV he was driving in the parking lot, and interviews with witnesses and surveillance videos, police said.
“I would consider him a threat to the community based on his actions, chasing these girls about,” Gulczynski said.
Police said interviews by the All Our Children’s Advocacy Center, photo lineups and interviews with Hayes also helped identify him as the offender.
Hayes was wanted on two warrants from the Naperville Police Department and Waukegan Police Department for public indecency, police said.