Three people have been arrested by the Cape Girardeau police for robberies over the weekend. A fourth man is being sought.
On Friday, a Cape Girardeau County Transit Authority employee reported being robbed of less than $40 at gunpoint by a woman and man.
Netfa Enzinga Simmons, 19 of Cape Girardeau, has been charged with armed robbery and bond set at $50,000. Police are seeking the male suspect, described as a thin black man, in his teens or early 20s, between 5-foot-10 and 6 feet tall, wearing a puffy dark jacket and a dark-colored sock cap.
On Sunday, two gas station robberies sent police after two other suspects. The Rhodes gas station, at 4049 S. Kingshighway, was robbed at 1:20 a.m. and Jasper's, at 407 Morgan Oak, was robbed at 8:50 a.m. A traffic stop by Alexander County, Ill. sheriffs deputies and Illinois State Police resulted in the arrest of two men, currently being held in the Tri-County Justice & Detention Center in Ullin, Ill., pending warrants for the incidents.
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