At the conclusion of a recent preliminary hearing for Pennsylvania College of Technology student Kahsan Youk, District Judge Christian Frey threw out the most serious felony charges against the 19-year-old man, including robbery, kidnapping and burglary. Youk, of Spring City, Chester County, was arrested in September on charges of allegedly kidnapping a classmate in a botched attempt to get the student to withdraw money from his bank account, it was alleged in court documents filed by Penn College police.

Youk allegedly tried to get the classmate to give him his personal bank information so that Youk could deposit a fraudulent stimulus check into the other student’s account, police said. Youk offered to split the money with the student if he had a way to deposit it into an account other than his own, police said. Fearing it was a scam, the victim backed out of the plan, but Youk still managed somehow to get the $5,643 check deposited into the student’s account using another person’s mobile device, police said.

On the morning of Sept. 17, Youk illegally entered the student’s dorm, woke up the student and demanded that he give him the pin to his bank account, police alleged. Youk then forced the student to drive him to the bank, it was alleged. During the hearing, much of the case collapsed as Frey also ruled there was insufficient evidence to hold Youk on charges of felony trespassing, terroristic threats and criminal coercion.

Frey did hold Youk on charges of forgery, criminal use of a communication device and harassment. Initially jailed, Youk is now free on bail.