The attempted kidnappings occurred within three weeks of each other in unincorporated residential ne

The attempted kidnappings occurred within three weeks of each other in unincorporated residential neighborhoods near Azusa, the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department said. The first alleged kidnapping occurred July 28, a Saturday, at 2:20 p.m. when a man pulled up next to a 16-year-old girl walking in a residential neighborhood with two teenage friends, near Orkney Street and Fenimore Avenue, less than 2,000 feet from Center Middle School.
Then, less than half a mile away, on Thursday at 1 p.m., a 14-year-old girl was walking near Orangecrest Avenue and Citrus Edge Street -– less than 1,500 feet from Foothill Middle School -- when a man driving a white two-door Nissan pickup truck, possibly a Frontier, las vegas hotels discounts pulled up alongside her and tried to grab her from his truck.
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