Attleboro police investigate reported abduction

By Casey Ramsdell, Globe Correspondent

Attleboro police are investigating a report from a 13-year-old boy that a man tried to kidnap him this morning from his yard. A man has been taken into custody who matched a description provided by the teenager.

Investigators have not confirmed that an attempted abduction occurred, and the man in custody has not been charged, said Lieutenant Scott Killough of the Attleboro Police Department.

The teen told police he was in his yard on Holden Street at 10:40 a.m. when a man grabbed him and pulled him into a wooded area. He told police that he was able to break free from the man and escape. The boy told his parents, who called police.

The suspect was described by the teen as a 6-foot-tall white male with shoulder-length brown curly hair. He was wearing black baggy pants and a white T-shirt with red lettering that may have been written in a flame-type style. A man who matched that description was taken into custody on Park Street.

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