Week in Review: Student Makes Bomb Threat to Ditch Class, Man Found in Closed Church and More

Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in St. Charles? Not to worry. Patch has your back.

In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from the St. Charles Patch from the last few days.

St. Charles Man Wins $100K On Lotto Ticket

• A St. Charles man is $100,000 richer this weekend after he hit it big on a Missouri Lottery scratch off ticket. Donald Cooper, 58, stopped by the Circle K on Droste Road in St. Charles, to fill up with gas and decided to buy a lottery ticket. 

Bomb Threat Made By 38-Year-Old Student Hoping to Ditch Class

• A Lindenwood University student phoned in a bomb threat because she wasn’t ready for class that evening, St. Charles Police said. Lori Knight, 38, of the 5500 block of Lansdowne Avenue in South St. Louis, was charged Thursday with making a terrorist threat. St. Charles Police said Knight called Lindenwood University’s St. Charles campus Wednesday with a blocked telephone number and told an operator that her brother planned to bomb the university that evening. St. Charles Police determined there was no credible threat to students.

• A St. Louis man faces drug dealing charges after St. Charles County Drug Task Force members said he sold heroin and crack cocaine to an undercover officer in St. Charles. Gregory Roy Steed, 23, of the 1100 block of Hickory Street in the city of St. Louis, was charged April 24 with four counts of distributing a controlled substance.

Man Found in Closed Church Tells Police He Needed Restroom

• A St. Charles man who told police he stopped to use the restroom faces a criminal charge for entering a St. Charles church at about 2:56 a.m. Thursday. St. Charles Police said a burglar alarm was activated about that time at CrossWay Church at 420 Hemsath. The church’s pastor came to re-set the alarm at about 3:24 a.m. and found an unlocked door at the church, police said. As he drove around the building, he saw a man inside the building.

• A new bill making its way through the Missouri legislature could allow St. Charles to exclude the city and Ameristar Casino from any future county-wide smoking ban if the city set up its own health department, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting. According to that report, the bill, which recently won State House of Representatives committee approval and was requested by St. Charles Mayor Sally Faith, would add St. Charles to a list of cities that state law exempts from county health regulations if they organize their own municipal health departments.