Cape Girardeau police were called to Long John Silver's restaurant on Kingshighway on Monday afternoon after a man locked himself in a bathroom there.
Police at the scene said the man was a shoplifting suspect at Kmart who ran from the department store into the nearby fast-food restaurant.
Police were eventually able to arrest the suspect.
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