Bicyclist Lures Children At Bus Stops

DES PLAINES, IL — Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who approached students at bus stops and offered them rides in unincorporated Des Plaines Wednesday. Around 7:30 a.m., a man on a bicycle rode up to a boy and a girl at a school bus stop near Church Street and Bay Colony Drive and offered them rides, Cook County Sheriff's police said.

The bicyclist told the boy he "could give him a ride in his car if the school bus did not show up," according to a news release from Sheriff Thomas Dart. He then rode over to a girl at the same bus stop and offered her a ride, asking her to go for coffee with him.

Both kids ignored the man and got on the bus.

Detectives learned the man had gone to another bus stop and made similar statements to students waiting there, according to the release.

The bike rider was described as a 5-foot, 10-inches to 6-foot, blond-haired white man between 30-40 years old. He was wearing a black hooded coat, black jeans and a black hat.

Sheriff's police released the below video of the man:

Anyone with any information about the man should call sheriff's police at 708-865-4896.

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_{Top Photo: Screen capture from surveillance video of child abduction suspect | via Cook County Sheriff's Police}