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St. Louis County stakeholders look for juvenile crime solutions
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – From police officers to prosecutors and elected officials to juvenile court officers, they gathered in south St. Louis County to find solutions on Friday.
Teen crime often begins with a stolen car, making the juvenile crime issue more regional than ever.
“They’ll steal a car in St. Louis City, and the next thing you know, they’ve committed a crime in St. Louis County or vice versa,” said Chief Kenneth Gregory for the St. Louis County Police Department.
Gregory was joined on the panel Friday by St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell.
“Our office can’t prosecute them… legally we cannot,” Bell said.
He said it needs to change and encouraged action from legislatures.A juvenile court representative, also on the panel, said at the meeting that the public needs to measure incarceration versus treatment and what will bring the best long-term results.
“We can do two things at once. We can address those issues, but we have a duty to hold people accountable,” Bell said. “We have a duty to keep our residents safe.”
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“We have to find the solution,” said Missouri State Representative Steve Butz. “The fact that they had that conversation this morning, I was glad just to witness it, and it gave me hope for the city that things could get better.”
Butz said it was reinvigorating to hear of other possible solutions. He said he was frustrated by the failure of a bill he supported that would’ve put an age limit on who can carry a loaded gun. He said the bill lacked support in the legislature.
“It’s crazy, I think most people would say unaccompanied minors that should not be able to walk around a public street with guns,” Butz said.
Bell said discussion and debate are crucial to finding new solutions.
“We need more of these kind of conversations with stakeholders at the table,” he said.
The meeting was organized by the St. Louis County Police Business Association, which raises money for police and thought it was also important to find solutions to juvenile crime.
Monty Monteleone of the association said, “We got together and said we need to do something for the region,” said Monty Monteleone, a member of the St. Louis County Police Business Association.
Friday’s meeting was similar to one FOX 2 reported last October in north St. Louis County. The juvenile courts have been meeting with stakeholders for months now to help work through differences and find ways to improve the fight against juvenile crime.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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