JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is trying to identify a man suspected of a string of robberies last month in High Ridge and House Springs.
A man allegedly stole a 2020 Kawasaki Mule Pro at about 1:50 a.m. Sept. 19 from a home on Highway PP in High Ridge.
The man was then man was seen in video surveillance footage when he allegedly broke into a Northwest Junior Football shed and appeared to try to break into another early in the morning of Sept. 21, said Andy Lenzen, the youth football association’s president. Approximately $500 worth of tools were stolen from a cabinet.
The sheriff’s office was called at about 5 a.m. Sept. 21 by security at the Ameren substation in House Springs because they saw a man driving around the facility in the side-by-side. A deputy found the stolen Kawasaki Mule Pro running abandoned in a nearby creek, the report said. The stolen tools and a spool of wire taken from the substation were also recovered.
Anyone with information about the thefts should call Detective Kane Harris at 636-797-5089 or email kharris@jeffcomo.org.
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