In a press conference Thursday, May 22, 2025, Mayor Cara Spencer tells residents to document damage to their homes for FEMA officials. She also noted for volunteers and residents to practice self-care. Video courtesy of the City of ӣƵ.
ST. LOUIS — Two more people were charged Monday with stealing storm-damaged property, including an Ameren transformer and utility wire.
Officers on Sunday were called to the 1300 block of Walton Avenue and found Larry Teague, 68, and Robert Jamison, 36, next to a wagon carrying the utility wire and transformer, charges say.
Both men were arrested.
While in custody, Jamison expressed confusion, police wrote in charging documents.
“What did we do?" Jamison reportedly said. "We aren’t allowed to take anything off the ground?”
Jamison and Teague are the eighth and ninth charged over the weekend with stealing and looting in areas damaged by the mile-wide tornado that ripped through multiple ӣƵ neighborhoods on May 16.
ӣƵ police Chief Robert Tracy said Saturday his officers arrested 10 people suspected of stealing wire from homes and businesses damaged by the tornado.
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Nicholas Allen, 37, of High Ridge, and Daniel Garber, 38, of ӣƵ County, were arrested Friday and each charged with two counts of first-degree tampering with a utility and felony stealing.
ӣƵ police said they found them attempting to load wire owned by Ameren Missouri and AT&T into a white pickup truck parked in an alleyway in the 1300 block of North Euclid Avenue, in the Fountain Park neighborhood.
Two others, Ashley Kirkover, 29, and Michael Thornton, 44, were charged with one count of tampering with a utility. Police said the Granite City residents admitted to cutting utility equipment from the wire and had plans to scrap the metal.
And on Saturday evening, police said they arrested three adults and a juvenile who were looting alcohol from a tornado-damaged store in the Ville.
On Sunday, prosecutors charged two ӣƵ men and a woman from Hazelwood with burglary, property damage and stealing. They're accused of breaking into Desta’s Market and Deli at 2503 N. Taylor Ave.
The three people charged were Latoya Booker, 41, of Hazelwood; Akeem Peters, 34, of the 5000 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in south ӣƵ; and Larry Moore, 34, of the 4600 block of Aldine Avenue in the Greater Ville.
