This week Crime Stoppers is seeking information to assist the Springfield Police Department in reference to a Criminal Damage investigation.  Between August 30^th and 31^st in the overnight hours, an unknown person(s) cut down over 50 trees in a boulevard along the 1700 block of East Lake Shore Dr.  The trees, which were around 6 years old and of various types, sustained damage amounting to over $10,000.00.   Crime Stoppers needs your help in solving this case. If photos become available, they will be posted on this website, cashfortips.us. If you can identify a suspect, suspects or any vehicle involved, call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 217-788-8427, submit a tip on this website, or use the P3 mobile app. If your tip results in an arrest you could receive a cash reward up to $2500.  Remember Crime Stoppers only wants your information, not your name.

Crime Stoppers Tip of the Week July 16, 2015  This week Crime Stoppers is focusing on a problem that has been plaguing neighborhoods in the Springfield area, particularly in the past few weeks. Local police officers have taken numerous reports on overnight thefts from parked motor vehicles and, in some cases, thefts of the vehicles where keys were left in them. Please remember, lock your cars, remove all property from your parked vehicles, and never leave keys in a vehicle. Crime Stoppers is attempting to identify the small groups of juvenile thieves who are responsible for these thefts from vehicles. We’ll forward any information you have to police for investigation, and you can earn a cash reward if your information leads to arrests. Call us at 788-8427, submit your tip on this website, cashfortips.us, or text your  tip by typing TIP672, then enter the information you have to help identify the criminals, and send it all to CRIMES. Text instructions can also be found on this web page.  We don’t want your name, we just want information which helps identify persons responsible for crime……. contact Crime Stoppers.  

  This week Crime Stoppers is focusing the Crime of the Week on the theft of a large quantity of toilet paper from the St Martin Deporres Center at Martin Luther King and South Grand on June 29th. We don’t like to see the charitable efforts of an organization dedicated to helping people in need hindered by a small group of people who decide to steal from charity. Help Crime Stoppers identify the thieves who took advantage of the hard work of volunteers and the generosity of others for their own small personal gain. Give us any information you have about this crime or the names of persons involved and we’ll forward the names of suspects to police for investigation and prosecution. If an arrest is made you will earn cash reward if it was your tip that led to the arrest.  You can call us at 788-8427, you can submit your tip on this website, cashfortips.us, or you can text us with the information by typing TIP672, before you enter your suspect information, and send it all to CRIMES.  More complete text instructions are on this page. We don’t want your name, we just want the names of persons responsible for crime……. contact Crime Stoppers  

Crime Stoppers is looking for information about an armed robbery which took place at Burger King at 510 W Jefferson on June 23rd at 1:30 am. Employees were confronted, after closing, by a black male with a thin build wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and a fitted blue ball cap.  After displaying a silver, semi automatic handgun, the suspect made off with cash, a cell phone, and a tablet. If you have information which might help us identify the suspect in this incident, call Crime Stoppers. Your identity will be anonymous and you’ll receive a Crime Stopper cash reward if your information leads to an arrest. There are three ways you can contact Crime Stoppers with tips. You can either call us at 788-8427, you can submit your tip on this website (cashfortips.us), or you can text us by typing TIP672 before entering the information you have, and send it to CRIMES. Text instructions are also on this page.  Remember, all three methods of leaving tips are completely confidential.

This week Crime Stoppers is looking for information about an armed robbery to a person which took place on June 8th at 10:30 in the evening at 13th and Ash. The victim was walking across the street when he was surrounded by a group of juveniles. One of the juveniles produced a handgun -which he pointed directly at the victim- and demanded his property. There were several persons in the group and police want the name of the person who displayed the weapon. The victim was able to escape without being injured. Crime Stoppers wants to pay a reward to the person who anonymously calls with information in this robbery. If you give us the information and it leads to an arrest of the suspect, we’ll pay cash. You can call us at 788-8427, you can submit your tip online at cashfortips.us, or you can text us with the information by typing TIP672, then enter the information you have, and send it to CRIMES. Crime Stoppers only wants suspect information, we don’t want your name, contact Crime Stoppers.

This week Crime Stoppers is looking for information about the theft of four Central air conditioning units from an apartment complex on Bluebird Court in Springfield. The daylight incident took place between 10 am and 2 pm on May 18th. Crime Stoppers is hoping that someone saw persons loading the new central air units thinking at the time that they were authorized to do so. Anytime you see someone unfamiliar removing air conditioners, call the police, they can check it out. If you have information which might help us identify the persons or the vehicle involved in this incident, call Crime Stoppers. Your identity will be anonymous and you’ll be eligible for a Crime Stopper cash reward if your information leads to an arrest. You can call us at 788-8427, you can submit your tip online at cashfortips.us, or you can text us by typing TIP672, then enter your information, and send it to CRIMES. Crime Stoppers wants your information, but we don’t want your name, give Crime Stoppers a call.

   Crime Stoppers is seeking help from the community to solve an  armed robbery to a person which took place in the area of White  Oaks West a little before 7 AM on April 3rd. The victim was taking a  morning walk when he realized he was being followed by a light  skinned black male wearing camouflage pants and a grey  hooded sweatshirt.  The suspect later intentionally crossed paths  with the victim and produced a handgun demanding the victim’s  wallet and cell phone. It was discovered that the suspect had been  in a stolen Dodge Stratus prior to the robbery.  There are video surveillance photos of the incident, however police are unable to see the suspect clearly enough to identify him. Some of the images can be seen below on our website, call us with any information you may have, or call us on the Crime Stopper tipline at 788-8427. You could earn a cash reward if you provide information which leads to an arrest.    

This week Crime Stoppers is seeking information about a series of criminal damage and theft incidents which took place overnight during the Celtic Festival in Chatham on the weekend of May 15th and May 16th. In the incident, persons damaged tents and trailers at the festival site and stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and property from the venues which were entered. As evidence at the scene is processed, it appears that this felony incident may have been perpetrated by more than one person and Crime Stoppers wants to pay a cash reward to a tipster who anonymously gives us the information which leads to arrests of the perpetrators.  

This week Crime Stoppers is seeking information about an armed robbery to a person that took place in the parking lot of Washington Middle School on the evening of May 13th. The victim – a custodian at the school – was going to his car after work at 10:15 pm when he was approached by 4 black male subjects, three of whom were armed with handguns. After being robbed, the victim was detained by the suspects for a period of time. The suspects later took the victims vehicle however, it was later recovered near 25th and Cook Street.    If you have information about this armed robbery, which evolved into a felony kidnapping, call Crime Stoppers. Your identity will be anonymous and you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1000. You can call us at 788-8427, or you can submit your tip on this website. If you want to text, the instructions are also on this website. Remember, Crime Stoppers only wants information, we don’t want your name, and we’ll pay CASH if the information leads to an arrest.  

This week Crime Stoppers is seeking information about a shooting which took place in the parking lot of Capitol City Lodge at Martin Luther King Drive and Brown Street during the late Saturday, early Sunday morning hours of May 10th. In the incident, police responded to reports that several gunshots were heard and discovered a 44 year old victim on the ground with injuries which proved to be fatal. There were several moving vehicles in the vicinity of the shooting and it is believed that persons in these vehicles have information which will be helpful in the investigation of this homicide. If you have information related to this shooting or suspects, call Crime Stoppers. Your identity will be completely anonymous and you can get a cash reward of up to $1000 if the information leads to an arrest. You can call us at 788-8427. You can also submit your tip on this website (cashfortips.us) or text us by typing TIP672, then enter your message, and send it to CRIMES. Crime Stoppers wants your information but we don’t want your name, give us a call.

As you’ve heard in past criminal incidents, there are often times when Crime Stoppers has produced surveillance photos of suspects. We now want to tell you about the Springfield Police Departments website, a separate website which has numerous photo’s of suspects from various incidents on the “Can You Identify” tab off the main page of the site. The Springfield Police Departments website is spd.springfield.il.us. If you recognize any of the persons in the photos, contact Crime Stoppers. You can be paid a cash reward if any tips you leave lead to the arrest of the suspects pictured. Remember the Springfield Police Department website is a separate website, not the Crime Stopper website. There is, however, a link from the Crime Stopper website to the SPD website and also from the SPD website to the Crime Stopper website.