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CommentsA man who tried to kidnap two 5-year-old girls was beaten Saturday night by two bystanders who witnessed the abduction attempts, Tacoma police said Monday.
Officers arrested the 45-year-old man on suspicion of trying to kidnap the girls, who had been playing with some other children in the 500 block of South L Street about 7 p.m.
Police said the man, apparently intoxicated, was walking on the sidewalk on L Street when he grabbed the first girl. She kicked her way free, and the man tried to grab another 5-year-old girl, police said. She, too, got away.
As the man tried to flee, two men who had been sitting in a nearby truck got out and severely beat the man, police reported. All three then left, police said.
The two girls told their parents what happened and officers found the first man in the 200 block of South J Street. He’d suffered a head injury and was stitched up at a local hospital before being booked into the Pierce County Jail on suspicion of attempted first-degree kidnapping.
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