Crime & Safety

Clayton Restaurant Worker Stole Cash From Safe, Police Say

An employee stole money from a Clayton restaurant after hours, but was captured on video surveillance entering the office, police said.
Edward K. Wills, 39, of the 3900 block of Westminster Place in St. Louis, was charged May 23 with felony stealing.
Clayton Police said Wills used his key and a code to enter Chipotle’s Mexican Grill, 1 North Central Avenue in Clayton at 3:32 a.m. Nov. 25. He was identified on video surveillance entering the restaurant’s office where the safe is kept, police said.
Police said he took more than $500 from the safe. 
Bail was set at $7,500 for Wills.
Wills was released from prison in 2010 after serving 11 years of a 15-year sentence for assault on an officer in Ferguson.


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