Crime & Safety

'Suspicious Person' Approached Young Girl On Bike: Cops

La Grange Park police have received a report of an adult man offering to pick up a young girl.

LA GRANGE PARK, IL - A "suspicious person" got out of a car and made verbal contact with a young girl on a bike Monday morning near 28th and Forest Road in La Grange Park, police said in a public safety bulletin addressed to residents. Police were not informed of this until several hours after the incident.

The man, who police described as a white middle aged man about 6 feet tall, is reported to have gotten out of a black 4-door car between 8:45 a.m. and 9:07 a.m. and say to the young girl as she was riding her bike "Put your bike down, mom said I should take you home."

The girl rode past him and did not stop and the guy fled the area, police said.

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