Kidnapping Story Tried To Hide Boys' Day Of Hooky In Skokie: Cops

CHICAGO, IL — Police say two elementary school-age brothers from Chicago fabricated an elaborate story of being drugged and abducted in order to cover up their efforts to skip school Tuesday and spend the day in Skokie and Niles, the Skokie Review reports. The brothers — one in third grade, the other in sixth — confessed to making up the kidnapping saga to Chicago and Skokie police, who questioned them for about a half hour after finding them at an office building near the Skokie-Niles border, the report added.

"They did a good job with it," Chicago police Sgt. Mark Golosinski told the Review, calling the boys' tall tale "imaginative."

So what was the fiction the brothers created in an attempted to hide their day of hooky? Here's what Golosinski told the Review about how their story unfolded:

On their way to school, the brothers said they were shot with tranquilizers, which knocked them out. They then were loaded into a van and driven to an office building in the 5500 block of West Touhy Avenue in Skokie, where they were found by police.

But what really happened on the brothers' unsanctioned day off? According to Golosinski, the boys walked to the Barnes & Noble bookstore at the Skokie Village Crossing shopping center and then crossed the street to the Niles Walmart, the Review reports.

Eventually, the boys ended up at the Touhy Avenue office building, where an employee at one of the businesses there noticed them, the report stated. The police were contacted, and the kidnapping story was devised and told, the report added.

Authorities said the brothers — who don't have a history of skipping school and are considered "good students" — won't face criminal penalties stemming from their deception, the report stated. Their parents, who had been searching for the boys after the school informed them that they hadn't made it to class, took them home from where the police had questioned them, the report added.

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Two elementary school-age brothers from Chicago made up a kidnapping story to cover up their attempt to skip school Tuesday, Feb. 20. The boys went to Niles and Skokie, where they stopped at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Skokie Village Crossing shopping center. (Image via Google Earth)