Cape Girardeau police release names, photos of Monday bank robbery suspects

One of the two men caught after allegedly robbing a Cape Girardeau bank this week has been tied to last week's bank robbery, police said.

Keiran D. Pippins, 18, of Forest Park, Ga., has been charged with robbing Capaha Bank, 380 N. Kingshighway, on Thursday.

"Through the course of the investigation we were able to link him to both robberies, but that's all I can say at this point," said Cpl. Adam Glueck, spokesman for the Cape Girardeau Police Department.

Marquel L. Rhines

Pippins and Marquel L. Rhines, 19, of Mounds, Ill., were transferred Tuesday to St. Louis, where they were charged with Monday's robbery of First State Community Bank, 2527 William St., according to a news release from the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Glueck said the two men were placed under federal jurisdiction because bank robbery is a federal crime.

Authorities said the men led police on a brief foot chase Monday after one of them had presented a note to a teller and demanded cash. No weapon was displayed. The two then fled in a Ford Explorer, police said. They were arrested after they exited the vehicle south of Bloomfield Road on Kingshighway. A bag containing the stolen cash was later recovered.

Police said that in the Capaha Bank robbery, the suspect handed a note to the teller and did not display a weapon. He later fled on foot.

Both robberies were the first in Cape Girardeau since the Bank of Missouri, 372 N. Kingshighway, was robbed Oct. 30, 2008. That same day Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had appeared at a campaign rally at the Show Me Center. George R. Chesnut of Alton, Ill., was charged with that robbery as well as an Oct. 3, 2008, robbery of the same branch.

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Pertinent addresses:

2527 William St., Cape Girardeau, MO

380 N. Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau, MO