GREAT BEND, Kan. (KSNW) — A 27-year-old man has been arrested after a Kansas babysitter found him hiding under a child’s bed, police said.
At around 10:30 p.m. Monday, the Barton County Sheriff’s Office says a babysitter at a home near Great Bend was putting the children to bed when one of them told her that a monster was under their bed.
The babysitter, hoping to comfort the child by showing them there was nothing, looked under the bed and came face-to-face with a man hiding underneath, authorities said. There was an alleged altercation, and the babysitter and a child were knocked over.
The man fled the home before deputies arrived, the sheriff’s office said.
The man was ultimately identified as someone who used to live at the house but was barred from being there due to a protection from abuse order.
The sheriff’s office said deputies continued searching for the man into the morning. He was found near the home again, and after a short foot pursuit, was taken into custody.
The 27-year-old man has been booked into the Barton County Jail on suspicion of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, child endangerment, felony obstruction of a law enforcement officer, and violation of a protection from abuse order. He is being held on a $500,000 bond.
Formal charges are still pending; Nexstar’s KSN does not identify suspects until they have been formally charged in court.
No additional details were immediately available.