Michael Bushnell
Northeast News
July 13, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A suspected Northeast home invader is in custody after a foot chase with police this past weekend.

Robert L. Brown, Jr., was arrested Sunday, July 12, in connection to the crimes and has been charged with burglary. Kansas City Police Department officers nabbed the suspected Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood burglar the morning of Sunday, July 12, after a short chase along the 3500 block of Windsor Avenue. According to police sources, two undercover officers were assigned to work proactively during the hours the burglar normally strikes, usually between 3 and 7 a.m. At around 6:45 a.m. Sunday, officers were called to a residence along the 3500 block of Windsor Avenue on an attempted residential burglary in-progress. After arriving at the scene, officers witnessed a black male leaving a residence. Uniformed officers apprehended the suspect after a brief foot chase, during which the suspect dropped a bag that contained some of the victim’s business cards.

Leslie Caplan, president of the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association, was elated after learning of the arrest.

“I’m thrilled the community and police came together and made this happen,” Caplan said. “The KCPD really stepped up on this and helped us take a bad person off the street.”

Sources with the KCPD indicate that the suspect can be linked to over a dozen residential burglaries in the East Patrol area, as well as several more in the Central Patrol Division area. The Scarritt Renaissance neighborhood, Pendleton Heights neighborhood and areas of Kansas City’s Westside have been victimized recently by a series of burglaries occurring during the early morning hours while residents slept in the home.

Brown is being held in lieu of a $100,000 cash bond.