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Home Invasion Suspect

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Home Invasion Suspect Arraigned

Suspect charged with 10 counts.

A 42-year-old man suspected of an armed home invasion robbery in Chesterfield of a jeweler and his wife was arraigned April 25, some two months afterward. Richard James Lynch, the suspect, was just days earlier released from 17 years in prison for two burglaries and one robbery according to court records, when police pulled him over in a car in Chesterfield, and arrested him. Police said they were on the lookout for the suspect after a pawn shop employee identified Lynch as trying to unload the stolen property, and provided a fingerprint. A May 25 conference is scheduled on the case is St. Louis County Court, 9am. Lynch is accused of laying in wait outside the home of a local jeweler's condo near Woods Mill and Olive roads, about 10pm …

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Chesterfield Armed Home Invasion Suspect Under Arrest

There was a $5,000 reward for a tip.

Chesterfield police nabbed a 42-year-old O'Fallon, MO man Thursday in connection with an armed home invasion robbery and assault of a Chesterfield jeweler and his wife, police said late Thursday afternoon. Police arrested Richard James Lynch on a tip from a pawn shop when someone recognized the stolen loot. Police did not release the name of the area shop. Lynch is charged with first-degree burglary, two counts robbery in the first-degree, assault in the second degree, two counts of felonious restraint and four counts armed criminal action—all felonies. Lynch was apparently driving in a car when police stopped him and arrested him as a suspect. Police said Lynch had prior run-ins with the law. "We knew who we were looking for," said …

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Chesterfield Armed Home Invasion Robbery Suspect On the Loose and Police Said $5,000 for Info On Armed Chesterfield Home-Invasion

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