Crime & Safety

Small Change Leads to Big Arrest

A roundup of odd, unusual and head-scratching crime reports in and around the area.

Home Depot Employee Was a 'Changed' Woman

A Ballwin woman was charged March 21 with stealing more than $98,000 in change from her employer, Home Depot in Ellisville. Court documents indicate the woman, Janet Sanguinett, 51, placed orders for coins for her employer between 2006 and 2009 as part of her duties as a vault associate. Rather than stock and log the coins' arrival, however, Sanguinett "pocketted" the change. She eventually confessed.

Tale of Two Caravans

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One Maryland Heights homeowner is relieved while another became a victim of a car thief on March 26. The thief apparently had a liking for Dodge Caravans. The door to one 1999 Caravan on Schulte Hill Drive was "pried on" but the thief was unable to get inside the vehicle. The 1999 Caravan of a neighbor down the street, however, suffered a different fate. It was stolen and later recovered on Belt Avenue in the City of St. Louis.

Someone Was About to Be Made an Offer He Couldn't Refuse

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In Chesterfield sometime between March 17 and March 19, the head of a horse sculpture behind a business in the 200 block of THF Boulevard was taken.

Wild Goose Turns Tables on Pursuers

Shrewsbury police were involved a wild goose chase March 29 in front of the Edward Jones office in Kenrick Plaza, but it was the goose doing the chasing. Several people, one of them a police officer, were attacked by a goose trying to defend her nest.

The Old "Can-I-Use-the-Restroom" Trick

Several items of jewelry were reported missing from the bedroom of a home on Valley View Drive, in High Ridge, on March 23 after several of the victim's son's friends were at the residence. Missing were a women’s wedding band, a gold bracelet and several miscellaneous necklaces and rings, valued at $3,000. The victim said her son had friends at the house on the day the items went missing, adding that her son's friend, whom she did not know, asked to use the restroom on the main floor near the bedroom. The victim said the friend was upstairs for a long period of time.


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