A South Side man was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail Sunday after being accused of taking part in the kidnapping of a family in early January, authorities said.

Jeffrey Campbell, 23, of the 1500 block of West 107th Street was charged with five counts of vehicular hijacking and four counts of aggravated kidnapping after three children and a man were driven away by four men. Authorities said the man had gang ties to the suspect.

A second suspect, Curtis Posey, 19, was charged Jan. 3, authorities said.

On Jan. 2, a 39-year-old man, his wife, their two children and another child were sitting in a vehicle in the 6800 block of South Calumet Avenue when four men drove up and blocked them, authorities said.

After the wife ran out of the vehicle, the armed men forced the man into the back seat with the children, ages 10, 8, and 2, and taped their mouths shut, said Cook County Assistant State's Atty. Mark Hitt. The suspects drove the vehicle away and dropped off the children at the home of a suspect's grandmother, authorities said. The children were later released at the Englewood District police station, Hitt said.

The suspects then took the 39-year-old man to a home in the 11700 block of South Eggleston Avenue, where two other children, ages 10 and 13, were. The men used tape on the 10-year-old girl and demanded that the 13-year-old boy find money they believed was stashed there, said police spokeswoman JoAnn Taylor.

When someone knocked on the door of the residence, the men fled, she said.

The 39-year-old man identified Campbell in a lineup, Hitt said. Police are still looking for two suspects, previously identified in arrest warrants as brothers, Steven Williams of the first block of West 105th Street and Sedgwick Williams of the 6800 block of South Dorchester Avenue.