Crime & Safety

Monsanto Co. Arrest Nets Award for Police Officer

Quarterly recognition ceremony provides opportunity.

A police officer who made Β theft was recently heralded for his good work on the case.

The theft involved a worker at Monsanto headquarters in Creve Coeur, not the Monsanto campus inΒ Chesterfield,Β next to City Hall.

Creve Coeur Police Officer Neal Kohrs won a certificate of recognition from Police Chief Glenn EidmanΒ in a ceremony this past month, over the November arrest.

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Police said an employee at Monsanto was accused of stealing cleaning supplies, so he could run a side business. Prosecutors have not yet filed a charge in the case.

Kohrs was later recognized for his work on an annual golf tournament that raised an estimated $35,000 this year, for police officers shot in the line of duty.

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Chesterfield Editor Jean Whitney added to this article.

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