Schenectady cops probe attempted abduction of teen
By PAUL NELSON, Staff writer Last updated: 2:52 p.m., Wednesday, December 31, 2008
SCHENECTADY City detectives are looking into an attempted abduction earlier this morning that left a teenager with minor injuries.
Police say just before 10 a.m., a man accosted a 13-year-old girl at the intersection of Broadway and Hegeman streets in Schenectady's Bellevue neighborhood and tried to grab her by the arm. She screamed, resisted and was able to wriggle free, but in the process fell to the ground, according to city police spokesman Sgt. Eric Clifford. She got up and ran to her home on Wabash Avenue where she called police, he said.
Clifford said the man uttered something to the girl along the lines of "what are you doing," then ran about 50 feet to the Fairview Plaza, also known as the Bonfare Plaza, where he hopped into the passenger side of a waiting white two-door compact car before the vehicle drove south on Broadway toward Rotterdam.
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