Williams is taking the helm from retiring Chief of Police Ron Compton.
The new chief, whose first day with the department was in January, was unanimously appointed to the position of police chief by the Board of Aldermen at the end of last year, and was hired with a starting salary of $97,500.
“I was really looking for a professional police department that I can be proud to be chief of. I was familiar with Crestwood, having grown up next to it. I spent many Friday and Saturday nights at the Crestwood mall,” Williams said of his decision to apply in Crestwood. “I knew the history here was kind of to hire from inside, but I will always be grateful that I was given the opportunity. It is everything I’ve been looking for in a police department. A great community. A great set of officers.”
Neighbors, businesses and area police departments ask that residents be wary of a recent wave of catalytic converter thefts from cars. The devices, which control exhaust emissions from vehicles, can be sold to scrap yards for the trace amounts of precious metals they contain.
âIn the past two months â December and January â we have taken a total of five reports for catalytic converter thefts,â said Lt. Andy Miller of the Webster Groves Police Department. âIn the three previous months, there had been four reports.â
Miller said four of the recent thefts occurred at businesses, with three of those at an auto repair business. All incidents occurred in the overnight hours. Police believe thieves are using a cordless reciprocating saw in the thefts.Â
Her name was Janelle.
I met her last December, right before the whole world went upside down. Our daughter, Lily, was 12. She saw her first. As we were waiting to turn left out of the grocery store parking lot, she said, âI think that lady needs help crossing the street.â
I turned and saw her, directly across from us. It was windy and cold out. She was a little bitty woman who you might think would blow over and cartwheel down the street like a leaf if a good enough gust came along, walker and all. It might have been in the upper 30s, but she only wore a couple of shirts with a medium-weight jacket. She was so thin that the elastic cuffs at the bottoms of her black sweatpants only touched her legs in one place at a time, depending on how the wind was blowing.
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