By Tony Brockmeyer
St. Charles Police Officer Ted Holland, assigned to the Mounted Patrol, captured a robbery suspect Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Convention and Visitors Bureau on Riverside at First Capitol. He was assisted by Sergeant Ron Lloyd and Patrolman John Greenley.
At approximately 2pm this writer, along with the publisher of the First Capitol News, were pulling into the driveway of our office located at 336 A South Main Street (rear). We observed a tall young man, early 20’s wearing a black t-shirt, red ball cap and blue jeans running down the sidewalk along side of the Gazebo. He was running east from South Main Street. An older man was running behind him and appeared to be trying to catch the young man. As we got out of the car in our driveway the young man ran in front of our vehicle and proceeded to run north through the alley towards First Capitol Drive. The older man started yelling, “He robbed me. He took my money.”
Our publisher, Phyllis Schaltenbrand, and the victim followed the suspect on foot I followed the suspect in my car while calling the police on a cell phone.
We followed him as he ran several blocks traversing South Main, Riverside and several alleys while keeping the police dispatcher advised of his location. The suspect was captured in the CVB Parking lot by Officer Holland while he was attempting to enter a vehicle.
He was interviewed by a St. Charles Police Detective who said the suspect would be charged with robbery.
The victim, who said his name was Robert Nelson, told the First Capitol News he had recently arrived in St. Charles from California.
