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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.

Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week April 21, 2016   Officer Mike Badger, Crime Stoppers Coordinator for Sangamon and Menard counties.   Crime Stoppers is looking for help in solving a series of residential burglaries which occurred at north Springfield subdivisions over the past several weeks. The burglaries occurred during daytime and evening hours and entry was most often been made through windows at the rear of the residences. In nearly all of the incidents, victims reported the loss of jewelry and small concealable items. Crime Stoppers is looking for tips from the public to help police solve these burglaries and thefts.  If you have any information about these burglaries call the Crime Stopper tip line at 788-8427. You can also text your tip to us on the Crime Stopper website cashfortips.us. If you’d prefer to text the tip, use the keyword TIP672, then enter the tip information, and send it to CRIMES (2-7-4-6-3-7). Instructions are on the tab on this page Do not give us any information to identify yourself, all tips to Crimes Stoppers are strictly confidential; we do not want to know who you are under any circumstances. Crimes Stoppers pays up to $1000 cash for tips which lead to an arrest, call today.