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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – It’s a dirty little secret among some teens. If you get caught committing a crime, you might not get locked up. But there’s a twist involving the Missouri River.
A recent back-and-forth crime spree involved three St. Louis County teens reportedly stealing cars, which culminated in a shooting. The trio was arrested in on the eastern side of the river, where they were not going to be prosecuted. So, police brought the teens to the other side to get charges filed.
It was on Jan. 9 that the teens ditched a stolen Nissan in Earth City after one member of the group shot a Cracker Barrel employee in St. Charles.
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“He was doing nothing more than yelling at some kids that he thought were breaking into his car,” Capt. Ray Floyd, St. Charles Police Department. Floyd said that protocol with minor suspects accused of crimes in multiple counties, is to take them to where they’re from.
“It’s for the convenience of parents and other people involved,” he said. “So, we were basically following the protocol that had been established at that point to take them to St. Louis County and continue our investigation.”
Floyd, on the other hand, claims that the St. Louis County Juvenile Court refused to charge the teens.
“If a case is not there, it’s not there, but with this we felt we definitely had…enough information to move forward,” Floyd said.
FOX 2 first reported on the concerns in October, when we had exclusive access to a meeting in which the north St. Louis County police departments confronted the juvenile courts.
At that meeting, Dellwood’s precinct commander for the North County Police Cooperative said in frustration, “…two or three hours later, (a suspect we arrested is) in Berkeley, caught in another stolen car and my thing was, ‘What the hell is he doing in Berkeley? He should be in juvenile?!’”
It’s not St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell’s fault, either. He raised the alarm in an interview with FOX 2.
Bell discussed his efforts to work with state legislators to improve the system.
“These car theft rings are recruiting young people, because they know young people will not be arrested oftentimes, or will be out quickly,” he said.
In the Cracker Barrel shooting case, police didn’t take no for an answer and took the case to St. Charles County Juvenile Court.
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“We felt that we did have enough evidence for criminal charges, and they agreed with us and filed charges based on that case,” Capt. Floyd said.
Dawn Cotton is ecstatic. It was her car stolen to commit violent crimes.
“I want to prosecute them, too. I’m actually set to go get a DNA swab done to see if they can eliminate my DNA from their DNA in the car,” she said.
Because of St. Charles County Juvenile Courts, the three teens—ages 14, 15, and 16—are now locked up on charges of car theft, armed robbery, and assault.
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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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