Failed Kidnapper Gets 6 Years in Pen

A Woodridge man’s failed attempt to kidnap two teenage girls bought him a six year prison sentence.

Kareem Green, 22, was found guilty in August of aggravated battery, attempted kidnapping, unlawful restraint and battery. Green, who also recently lived in Plainfield, according to jail records, faced up to 10 years in prison before he was sentenced Wednesday.

In January 2013, Green drove his Ford Explorer past a 16-year-old girl who was walking along Far Hills Drive in a subdivision north of Bolingbrook High School.

Green stopped his Explorer, got out and jogged toward the girl. He passed her by, but then turned around and ran straight for her. Green grabbed the girl and tried to pull her into his sport utility vehicle, but a motorist pulled up, got out of his car and frightened Green away.

Two days later, Green followed another 16-year-old into an apartment building on Woodcreek Drive in Bolingbrook. He grabbed the teen but she elbowed him and screamed. A resident emerged from an apartment and Green fled.

The police developed a sketch from descriptions the girls gave of their attacker. Working with the sketch and descriptions of the Explorer, detectives deduced Green was the culprit and arrested him in March 2013.

“A dangerous man has been taken off our streets because of two brave girls who refused to become victims, a courageous good Samaritan who refused to look the other way and dogged police work by detectives who refused to let their community become the hunting grounds for a predator,” said Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, according to a press release.