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Earlier this week at approximately 11 pm on Sunday May 8th, a group of 6 persons burglarized the Family Dollar store at 921 W Jefferson in Springfield. The group broke a glass entry door to the closed business to gain entry and quickly ransacked the business, stealing assorted items before exiting and leaving the area on foot in a northbound direction. This brazen group of individuals needs to be identified and prosecuted and we need your help.

Crime Stoppers of Sangamon and Menard Counties has announced a new incentive which is designed to help resolve unsolved homicide cases by providing a significantly larger reward than is usually given. The Cold Case program will offer rewards of $5,000 to individuals who provide information leading to the arrest of suspects in unsolved homicide cases.

Crime Stoppers is seeking help from the public to help solve an early morning robbery on April 30^th to a person at the 200 block of South Durkin Drive in Springfield. The victim reported he was walking his dog, before dawn, when he was confronted by a black male subject 25-30 years of age who stood approximately 6 feet tall and weighed 225 pounds. After the suspect confronted the victim, an altercation occurred between the two and the victim received a non life threatening stab wound to the shoulder. A brown leather wallet was stolen in the robbery.

Crime Stoppers is attempting to help police identify the subjects involved in a burglary to the Farm and Home store on North Dirksen Parkway in Springfield during the early morning hours of April 23rd. The two subjects, whose images were captured on surveillance cameras, smashed display cases and stole several semi-automatic handguns and fled the area in an unknown direction. Look at the images of the thieves on the Crime Stopper website cashfortips.us and help us identify these criminals. If you are able to give any information about the subjects involved in this burglary and theft and it leads to an arrest, Crime Stoppers will pay a cash reward of up to $1000. We want these criminals and the stolen handguns off the street.

Call us on our anonymous tip line at 788-8427 or leave a tip on the website when you look at the pictures- again the website address is Cashfortips.us. You can also text a tip to Crime Stoppers, text instructions are also on the website. All tips we take are taken anonymously, we don’t want your name… contact Crime Stoppers.

Crime Stoppers uses your donations to pay our cash rewards for tips. So by giving you're helping to directly drive down crime in the area. Please help us to make Sangamon and Menard Counties a crime free place to live.

If you are unable to give directly we also have other programs such as the AmazonSmile program (which donates a portion of your purchase to us), or our many events (like trivia night, wine tastings, community unity, and others) that help raise funds for our organization. Please be a part of the solution to cleaning up crime.