Allen Dwain Johnson Jr., 35, of St. Louis, was charged with stealing clothing, jewelry and other merchandise from the Brentwood Target store, according to court and police records.
On May 19 at around 8 a.m., Johnson selected the items at the Target store and hid them in a shopping bag. He then walked out of the store without making an attempt to pay. He was caught at the Brentwood Metrolink station and the stolen items were recovered.
The charge was his third stealing-related offense in ten years, and charged as a Class E felony.
Also in Brentwood, on May 2, in the 8300 block of Musick Memorial Drive, Dakota Taylor Longworth, 24, of Columbus, Ohio, threw a car jack through the window of a Honda Civic to steal a purse.
In Maplewood, in the 2200 block of Yale Avenue, on October 31, 2016, William Aaron Noe, 29, of Bunker Hill, Illinois, received three charges of possession of a controlled substance. After an officer stopped Noe for driving without a headlight, he found bags of cocaine, methamphetamine and LSD in the car.