Bolingbrook Man Guilty of Attempted Kidnapping

A Bolingbrook man was found guilty of attempting to abduct a teenage girl and accosting a second teen two days later.

Kareem Green, 22, faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in October.

Will County Judge Dave Carlson handed down his verdict Friday morning. Green was convicted of aggravated battery, attempted kidnapping, unlawful restraint and battery. Judge Carlson found Green not guilty of a single count of burglary.

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, prosecutors said, 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 a Woodcreek Drive apartment building. He grabbed her but the teen 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 tremendous amount of credit goes to the Bolingbrook Police Department for doing what can only be described as a first-rate investigation,” said Charles B. Pelkie, the spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office.

Green took the witness stand during his trial. Judge Carlson called his testimony “incredible.”