CAPE GIRARDEAU SEES 21ST ROBBERY SINCE EARLY JULY

One robbery suspect was caught and another escaped during two separate chases on Tuesday, Cape Girardeau police said.

About 10:22 p.m., the Jade Chinese restaurant at 2123 Broadway was robbed, police said.

It made the 21st robbery in Cape Girardeau since early July.

Police reported that the restaurant's owner was taking trash out a side door when a man jumped out of some nearby bushes.

The man began saying something unintelligible to the owner as he moved toward him with an object in his hand, Orr said.

The restaurant owner started running toward a nearby gas station for help. He told police that he could hear the man yelling out threats of shooting as he continued to follow.

After a few seconds of running the man turned around and saw that he wasn't being followed anymore, police said.

The suspect had returned to the restaurant, where the owner's wife was present. The robber confronted the woman with a four-inch filet knife and took money from a bank bag.

The man was described as 6 foot, 175 pounds, and wearing a white T-shirt with purple warm-up pants and black tennis shoes. His face was covered with a bandana and a dew rag with an undetermined pattern was over his head, Orr said. He also wore plastic gloves.

Earlier on Tuesday, the owner of Semo Gas at 40 N. Sprigg St. was at his business when he saw a man walking by whom he recognized from a robbery on Aug. 28, Orr said.

As owner Asif "Steve" Majeed started to chase after the suspect, he dialed the police department on a cellular phone.

"He was giving us continual reports of the suspect's location as he fled," Orr said.

An officer was dispatched and arrived at the 200 block of north Ellis Street, where he saw the suspect, who was wearing a football jersey with No. 22. As the officer exited his vehicle, the suspect fled into an alley, Orr said.

The officer got back into his vehicle and started to follow the suspect down the alley. However, after a minor accident, the officer continued to chase the suspect on foot, Orr said.

After running across Broadway, the man was arrested in the parking lot of the Medical Arts building at 937 Broadway.

Police arrested Dominique D. Arnold, 20, who lives in the 200 block of north Ellis Street, Orr said. He was charged with a class C misdemeanor of attempted stealing and a class A misdemeanor of assault in connection with the Aug. 28 robbery. He was also charged with a class A misdemeanor of resisting arrest.

Arnold was also being sought on a Harrison, Ind., warrant for felony stealing, Orr said.

Arnold is being held on a $5,000 bond in the Cape Girardeau County jail.