On Thursday, November 12, 2015, the Cape Girardeau Police Department received a complaint of an impaired driver. The caller was following a vehicle that had reportedly committed several traffic violations, and the caller believed the driver was impaired. A Cape Girardeau police officer located this vehicle and stopped it near the intersection of Pacific and Good Hope. The driver was identified as James Douglas Richards of Cape Girardeau. Richards was arrested at approximately 10:30 p.m. He was transported to the Cape Girardeau Police Department, and later released with citations for the ordinance violations of driving while intoxicated and failure to drive on the right side of the roadway.
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Cape Girardeau/Bollinger Co. Major Case Squad Activated – Shooting at 500 Block of S. Frederick
On Sunday, November 15, 2015, at 2:03 a.m. the Cape Girardeau Police Department received a report of a person shot in the 500 block of South Frederick. When officers arrived, they located a victim on […]
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Arrest Made in Stolen Handgun Taskforce Case
Last night at approximately 5:30 p.m. officers from the Cape Girardeau Police Department and the SEMO Drug Task Force conducted an investigation where a subject was found to be attempting to sell a handgun using […]
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Drop Off Unwanted Prescrption Drugs at the Cape Girardeau Police Department
Unwanted prescription drugs can now left with the City of Cape Girardeau Police Department for proper disposal. A disposal bin is located inside the lobby of the Police Department’s headquarters at 40 South Sprigg Street. […]