Academy Sports Theft

On Wednesday, October 16, 2019, the O’Fallon Police Department responded to Academy Sports, located at 1574 W Hwy 50, O’Fallon, IL for a report of a Retail Theft which had just occurred.  Information was provided to police dispatchers that three subjects exited with armfuls of clothing.  In the course of exiting the store, an employee asked the subjects to leave the merchandise.  One of the suspects’ then sprayed the employee with pepper spray and all three suspects ran out of the store, with the merchandise in hand.  Once outside, the subjects entered a vehicle and fled the scene.

After the investigation conducted by the responding officers, and a review of video surveillance footage, the following descriptions were obtained regarding the three female suspects, all of which were estimated to be in their late teens to early twenties:

Suspect #1 – Black female, medium build, with a blonde ponytail, wearing a black/blue long-sleeve “Bleed Blue” shirt, denim jacket, black pants, black head cover and black shoes.

Suspect #2 – Black female, medium build, with long hair, wearing a black shirt, a yellow jacket, grey pants, and flip-flop style sandals.

Suspect #3 – Black female, medium build with shoulder length hair, wearing a long-sleeve blue shirt, denim jacket, black pants (white stripe down the side) and flip-flop style sandals.

The O’Fallon Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying these subjects.  Anyone with information regarding the identity of the pictured subjects is asked to contact the O’Fallon Police Department at 618-624-4545.