EVERETT, Wash. – A 44-year-old man is behind bars in Snohomish County for reportedly trying to kidnap a 12-year-old boy in South Everett.

Snohomish County deputies responded Tuesday morning to an attempted kidnapping at apartment complex near Mariner High School.

Deputies said the boy was running through the complex when the man came out of the woods and tried to grab him.

The man was wearing a dark-colored hoodie and a mask, deputies said. The child told police he stomped on the man’s foot and elbowed him to escape his grip.

Deputies said they searched the woods nearby and found a 44-year-old man sitting inside a tent. He was wearing a hat with fake hair attached, a black mask and a black hoodie.

What’s also disturbing is that the suspect had multiple dolls with genitalia drawn on them in his tent. The man was arrested and booked into the Snohomish County Jail for attempted kidnapping.