Several felony charges have been lodged against Pennsylvania College of Technology student Kahsan Youk after he kidnapped a classmate in a botched attempt to get the student to withdraw money from his bank account, it was alleged in an affidavit filed by Penn College police. Youk, 19, of Spring City, Chester County put out an online message asking “people to contact him if they wanted to make (some) money,” it was stated in the court document.

The victim in this case met with Youk in one of the buildings on campus on Sept. 10 and Youk demanded that the student give his bank information to him so that he could “deposit a fraudulent stimulus check into the student’s account,” police said. Once that was done, Youk told the student that the two could split the cash, police said. “Realizing this was a scam, the student gave Youk an old deactivated bank card,” and attempted to have no more contact with Youk, the affidavit stated.

However, three days later, Youk approached the student and told him “‘they already paid for the slip,’ and that the student was going to have to give him his bank information or he was going to have his ‘friends from Philly and New Jersey roll up on him,'” the affidavit stated. It was unclear what “paid for the slip” meant. Fearing for his life, the student relayed his personal bank information to Youk, police said.

Unbeknownst to the student, the fraudulent check of $5,643 was deposited into his account from a mobile device that did not belong to him on Sept. 16, police said.

“Bank logs later revealed that someone other than the student was accessing his account from Maple Shade, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Penn College,” police said.

Just before 7 a.m. the very next day, Youk illegally entered the student’s dorm and woke him up, demanding that he give him the pin to his bank account, police alleged.

“Youk’s body language implied he was concealing a weapon, which scared the student into complying with Youk’s demands Youk had the student call the bank in an attempt to change the pin. When that didn’t work, Youk forced the victim to drive him to the bank in an attempt to get a new card,” police alleged in the affidavit.

That also did not work so the students returned to campus, police said.

Several hours later, while the student “was working on a school project in a lab, Youk approached him and repeatedly told him ‘You better not tell anyone,'” court documents stated. Youk has been charged with robbery, kidnapping, forgery, burglary, trespassing, illegal use of a cellphone, all felonies, plus terroristic threats, criminal coercion and harassment, all misdemeanors. Arraigned before District Judge Gary Whiteman, Youk was initially jailed in the Lycoming County Prison, but has since been released on $50,000 bail.