Suspects In Custody After Robbery Attempt At Missouri Coin In Des Peres
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Suspects In Custody After Robbery Attempt At Missouri Coin In Des Peres
by Kevin Huelsmann
Webster-Kirkwood Times, Inc.
Webster Groves, MO
February 16, 2009
A robbery attempt Feb. 15 at a Des Peres coin store
turned into a police chase that landed four men in
custody and left one of the victims with a
laceration on his neck.
Dennis McCormick, who owns Missouri Coin, and
another employee of the store had attended a coin
show earlier in the day and were returning to drop
off some coins at the store when they were attacked.
McCormick said the other employee had gone into
the store, which is located in the 11700 block of
Manchester Road, to disable the alarm system when
three men approached them.
"They came flying off of Manchester and just starting
attacking us in the parking lot," McCormick said.
"Two guys were fighting me, one guy was waiting in a
car and another was breaking into my car."
McCormick said he fought two of the men back and
forth across the parking lot, which is when he was
cut in the neck.
"It was a minor cut, but he was trying to kill
me," McCormick said.
The four men eventually fled the parking lot and
headed west on Manchester Road with several
briefcases full of coins they had stolen from
McCormick, police said.
Police were able to get a description of the
suspect's car from 911 reports that were called
in at about 1:30 p.m.
Des Peres Police, with help from St. Louis County,
Kirkwood, Town and Country, Frontenac and state
Highway Patrol officers; stopped the car in the
Olympic Oaks parking lot.
The four men immediately ditched the car and
fled on foot.
The driver was immediately taken into custody
and within several minutes two more of the
suspects where caught. The fourth suspect was
picked up by a Kirkwood K9 Officer during a
search of the area, police said.
McCormick was treated and released from a local
hospital Sunday and said the other employee
involved in the attacked escaped without any
major injuries.
"Everything was returned and I barely had a
scratch," McCormick said. "I'm very thankful
things turned out well, it could have been a
lot worse."
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