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This week Crime Stoppers is hoping you can help solve an armed robbery which occurred at Boost Mobile Cellular Phone Store on Stevenson Drive in Springfield.  The robbery occurred at 4:30 pm  on July 10th. In the incident, a black male subject posed as a customer, then pulled out a black, semi automatic handgun to rob a clerk in the store. The right handed suspect was approximately 30 years of age, 6 foot tall, and had a slim build. Help Crime Stoppers identify the robbery suspect who is pictured in surveillance video. We’ll forward information you give us about this armed robbery to police for investigation, and you could earn cash reward. You can call us at 788-8427, you can submit your tip on our website, cashfortips.us, or you can text us with the information by typing TIP672, then enter your suspect information, and send it all to CRIMES.  We don’t want your name and remember tips are always kept anonymous…… contact Crime Stoppers today.

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.