Rideshare Driver Kidnapped, Forced to Withdraw Money from ATMs

Glen Ellyn police are looking for two men accused of kidnapping a driver for a rideshare company from outside an apartment complex in Glen Ellyn over the weekend.

The suspects approached the 36-year-old man while he was standing outside his car at the apartments at 325 Ramblewood Drive in Glen Ellyn, according to authorities.

One of the men had a handgun and the suspects forced the man to drive around to several ATM locations where they attempted to use the victim’s ATM card to withdraw money, according to a news release from the the police department.

The men then directed the victim to drive to Walmart at 3S100 Route 53 in Glen Ellyn. When they got to the parking lot, the victim was able to escape and run from the car, according to the news release. The man called to report the kidnapping at about 9 p.m. on Saturday.

The two men were last seen leaving the scene in the victim’s grey 2009 Nissan Sentra.The victim was not injured and the car was later recovered in Glen Ellyn.

The kidnapping is similar to one reported on Aug. 26 when three men are accused of kidnapping a 21-year-old Wheaton College student, plucking him off a Glen Ellyn street, holding him at gunpoint in an SUV, and forcing him to use his ATM card to drain his bank account. The victim in that case was dropped off in the city of Chicago.

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All three men accused in the August kidnapping have been charged.

The suspects in the most recent kidnapping are both described as black men in their early to mid-twenties.The one suspect is approximately 5-feet 5-inches tall and 110 pounds, according to a news release.The other suspect is about 5-feet 8-inches tall and 160 pounds.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 630-469-1187.

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