Category: Crime

Detectives need assistance in identifying this suspect relative to a Robbery 1st/ Abduction that occurred on June 17,2018 at approximately 4:40 p.m. in the 4400 block of Maryland. The victim, a 25-year old white female, was walking to her vehicle, and when she opened the vehicle door the suspect, described as a black male in his mid-thirties, 5’9” to 6’0” tall, wearing a white t-shirt with Looney Tunes characters, and a blue baseball cap, approached her. The Read More…

Three major violent crimes have occurred in the last month in the CWE and arrests have been made in all three. A rape that occurred on Boyle in the Central West End. Police say a 26-year-old woman was sleeping in her second story bedroom when a man climbed in through a first floor window and assaulted her. (KTVI report) Follow-up: Man charged in Central West End rape linked to crime through DNA, police say A Read More…

The St. Louis police department have announced an arrest in the case involving the tragic murder in March of the pregnant school teacher, Jocelyn Peters of West Pine Boulevard.

KMOV reports this morning that, over the weekend, the police apprehended the bicycle thief that had been responsible for a large number of thefts in the CWE in the past few months. Many thanks to Jim Whyte and the NSI for publicizing the videos and images of the man’s previous burglaries, which ultimately led to the man’s identification and arrest.

Police announced this morning that they are treating the shooting death of Jocelyn Peters in the 4200 block of West Pine as a homicide instead of a suicide as had been indicated earlier.  No signs of forced entry and no weapon was recovered.  This has now been reported by KMOV and the Post Dispatch.  I will follow this and will post any developments as I get them.  Very sad and shocking.

There have been several thefts from the garage at 4200 Laclede this last week involving bicycle equipment.  At least one set of photos of the perpetrators from security cameras have been provided to the police.

Last night there were several reported robbery events in the CWE that we would like to bring to your attention. At approximately 6:40pm, near Taylor and Forest Park, a victim reported being surrounded by a group of teenagers, one of whom demanded his phone. The group then assaulted the victim by punching him several times. The group of teens then fled north of Taylor. A short time later, near Taylor and Laclede, a group of Read More…

On Thursday, 02/18/16, at approximately 9:10pm, A young woman was the victim of a street robbery. As she was getting out of her car at 4550 Forest Park (near Euclid) she was approached by 4 suspects. One indicated he had a gun and punched her in the face knocking her to the ground. The suspects took her purse, car keys and phone and ran south toward the Metro stop. NSI conducted a review of our Read More…

A suspect in the car jacking that occurred early Friday morning at the Schnuck’s on Lindell is now in custody.   Police were following up a lead based on evidence provided by one of the victim.  Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident.