Bond set in attempted abduction at ECC

Bond was set at $500,000 Sunday for Thomas Siebert, the Elgin man arrested in connection with the attempted abduction of an Elgin Community College student.

Authorities said Siebert, 52, was positively identified by both the victim and witnesses as the person who approached the 21-year-old college student from Aurora in the college's parking lot last month.

The attacker punched the victim in the face until she fell to the ground, then tried to drag her into his vehicle, Elgin police said.

Siebert, of 91 Brookside Drive in Elgin, was arrested Saturday and charged with attempted kidnapping, unlawful restraint and two counts of battery, police said.

The victim said she saw Siebert roughly 20 minutes before the attack, police reports said. He was walking on Spartan Drive at ECC and she had to drive around him, reports said.

When she returned to her car around 5:17 p.m., police said, the man walked toward her and she asked him, "Can I help you?"

The woman was punched three times and fell to the ground, police said.

The woman was being dragged toward a vehicle when a witness starting shouting. The perpetrator fled east on Spartan Drive. The victim was taken to Provena St. Joseph Hospital, where she was treated for her injuries and later released.

Elgin and ECC police passed out a community alert bulletin with a composite drawing of the offender, which helped lead them to Siebert, police said.

He was arrested at his Elgin home and remained in Elgin police custody late Sunday. He's due to appear in Kane County court Sept. 13.