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Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:00 PM CDT
Police make arrest in armed robbery case

CHARLESTON — Police arrested an Eastern Illinois University student early Tuesday evening on charges related to an armed robbery Tuesday evening at a Fourth Street apartment building.

The arrest of Derek B. Mitchel, 19, 319 Thomas Hall, followed shortly after the Charleston Police Department announced the issuing of warrants for the arrest of Mitchel and the other robbery suspect, Andrew S. Maisonneuve, 20, of Kankakee.

Charleston Detective Sgt. Chad Reed said EIU Police Department officers arrested Mitchel early Tuesday evening. Reed said Maisonneuve is not an Eastern student.

The robbery reportedly occurred at 6:55 p.m. Tuesday at 950 Fourth St., Apt. 17. Two men entered the apartment, displayed a black handgun, and took video game systems and games from the lone male occupant there, according to police.

Maisonneuve is described as a black male standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds, and having black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to call the Charleston Police Department at 345-8422.

The Charleston Police Department has been assisted in this investigation by the EIU Police Department, Illinois State Police Crime Scene Services, Coles County State’s Attorney’s Office, and Coles County Sheriff’s Department.

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blackhawk wrote on Mar 13, 2009 12:46 AM:

" another fine job by our local police! Now go get the other one! "

theproletariat87 wrote on Mar 14, 2009 12:53 PM:

" Its great that this was prevented but to anyone listening to a scanner it was racist. The cops were pulling over every black person and stopping every black person to that weren't even near the d*mn crime scene or where a witness called in. Just another example of people with too much power exercising it. "

BlueDogDemocrat wrote on Mar 15, 2009 10:45 AM:

" So theproletariat87, between your cashier job at County Market, and in between your busy schedule of home-schooled studies of astro-physics and writing your novel "Communism Cures All", and your "charity work" of picking up trash in your neighborhood, you somehow find the time to play Barney Fife as you monitor the police scanner?

You and your buddy injustice85 are two of the busiest 23 year-old self-appointed moral-police I've ever heard of.

When do you two stoners find time to change your bong-water?

Oh and, since you and injustice85 are calling all the anonymous posters out, why aren't you two posting under your real names? "

SSFAN wrote on Mar 15, 2009 10:55 AM:

" Let me get this straight, a black person(s) committed this crime, so what would be the point in pulling over asians, whites, arabs, etc,? And how would they know theye weren't near the crime scene when they pulled them over. Sorry, but profiling really does serve a purpose. My son got pulled over in Florida lately, his crime, he was going to slow and there had been a rash of BB gun shootings in that area lately. I believe that was profiling too, with good reason. "

Just watching wrote on Mar 15, 2009 6:50 PM:

" Theproletariat87.Nothing was prevented, I Also agree with BDD.I recieved a little e-mail notice too. "