County drops charge against former Tower Clerk-Treasurer

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Marshall Helmberger
TOWER­— Nearly two years to the day after Linda Keith acknowledged she intentionally destroyed a city laptop computer, the St. Louis County Attorneys Office has dismissed the criminal complaint against the former Tower City Clerk-Treasurer.
The felony charge for the destruction of public property had hung over Keith’s head for more than a year and a half, but her refusal to plead in the case prompted the county to dismiss the charge just days before a jury trial in the case was set to begin.
The case stemmed from statements made by Keith shortly after she was suspended as clerk-treasurer in June of 2019. City officials had demanded that she return a city laptop that she had in her possession but Keith never returned the device. Instead, she told a Breitung police officer that the computer had failed, so her son shot the computer and she later drove over the device with her pickup before burning the remains to ash in a fire.

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