Cops Catch Crook After Smoke Shop Stickup
Welcome Smokers at Grasso Plaza was held up this afternoon, but police arrested a suspect a few blocks away.
St. Louis County police say they apprehended the perpetrator of a robbery at Welcome Smokers in Grasso Plaza this afternoon. Around noon, a man who held his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun robbed the smoke shop at 67 Grasso Plaza. It is unclear whether he had a weapon or not. No one was hurt. The police were called, and officers on the scene said police apprehended the robber soon after at a house a few blocks away on Weber Road near Valcour Avenue. The suspect was tracked with the help of a K-9 unit. About 1 p.m. three police cars and a crime scene unit were seen in front of the house on Weber. At the same time, county officers were on foot with a police dog from the K-9 unit were searching the parking lot behind the Walgreens at …
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