Prosecutors said Terran McKethan grabbed the girl near the entrance of a supermarket last Wednesday in the West Rogers Park neighborhood's 6600 block of North Damen Avenue.
About a block away, the girl bit McKethan on the hand and he dropped her.
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Prosecutors said a teenage girl and her mother recognized surveillance images of the suspect from an encounter earlier in the week at the same store.
Police managed to track McKethan down at his place of employment and arrest him. He was held without bond.
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