Newsroom

Officer Mike Badger, Crime Stoppers Coordinator for Sangamon and Menard Counties. This week Crime Stoppers is looking for information about a battery that occurred inside White Oaks Mall on August 6th at approximately 4:40 PM.  The incident occurred on the second floor near the food court.  A 14 year old male was battered by 3 black juvenile males and although the victim was able to identify one of the suspects, police are looking for the identity of the remaining two suspects.  The victim received minor injuries in the incident; the suspects were able to flee the area before police arrived on the scene.  If you have any information about this incident or the identities of the unknown suspects, please call Crime Stoppers at 788-8427. You can also text a tip by typing TIP672, then give us the information, and send the text to CRIMES.  Another way to leave a tip is to leave it on our website cashfortips.us.  If your tip leads to an arrest, a cash reward will be paid and don’t forget, you are always anonymous when you leave a Crime Stoppers tip.  

Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week August 13, 2015 Officer Mike Badger, Crime Stoppers Coordinator for Sangamon and Menard Counties. This week Crime Stoppers is looking for information about an incident in which a number of fire damaged apartments in the Chatham Hills Apartment complex were entered several days after a fire had caused extensive damage to the building. It’s possible that neighborhood residents thought that the perpetrators were construction workers or maintenance employees when entry was forced into the fire damaged building and apartments. Several units were ransacked and a few of the apartments were found to have items, including electronics and jewelry, missing from them. Did you see anything on August 10th on Candlewood Drive which looked a little unusual but you didn’t think at the time it was a criminal act? If you did, or if you have any other information which might help solve this crime, call Crime Stoppers- you could earn cash reward. You can reach us at 788-8427, or you can submit your tip by text or on this website, just follow the instructions on this page.  Remember Crime Stopper tips are always kept anonymous.

Crime Stoppers of Sangamon and Menard Counties is looking for information on a series of thefts that involved ATVs and zero-turn mowers.

Crime Stopper Crime of the Week   August 6, 2015   Officer Mike Badger Crime Stopper Coordinator for Sangamon and Menard Counties   This week Crime Stoppers is looking for information you can give us to help solve a series of thefts of ATV's and zero turn mowers in the area. Many of the thefts were in rural areas and, although the thefts have been reported in all parts of the County, there seems to be a concentration of thefts in the eastern part of Sangamon County. In many instances the ATV's were removed from garages or out buildings and were pushed or driven away from the residence. These thieves may also be responsible for residential burglaries in rural areas. Let's identify these crooks, find them, and lock them up. If you have any information which might help in the investigation, call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 788-8427. You can also submit your tip on this website or text your tip. Instructions for leaving your text tips are on this page   Remember, Crime Stoppers will pay a cash reward if your information about this crime, or any crime, leads to an arrest.    

Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week July 30, 2015   Officer Mike Badger, Crime Stoppers Coordinator for Sangamon and Menard counties.   This week Crime Stoppers is seeking information about an armed robbery which took place at Sno Biz on Laurel at MacArthur at 8:30 in the evening on July 22nd.  In the robbery, a tanned middle aged white male with a scruffy beard approached the business from MacArthur and produced a black semi-automatic handgun which he cocked and pointed at the clerk. The suspect was approximately 5’10” with a thin build and had a feature which was described as a “lazy eye”. We’ve solved cases like this before with tips from the public, give us a call if you have information which will help solve this robbery.  The suspect made off with a small amount of cash.                You can call Crime Stoppers at 788-8427, you can submit your tip on this website (cashfortips.us), or you can text us by typing TIP672, then enter the information you have and send it to CRIMES. We don’t want your name, we only want information about crime or criminals, and if your anonymous information leads to the arrest, we’ll pay a cash reward.