Pair charged with stealing coworker’s 2022 tax return

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ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant on Monday for one of two men charged with stealing a coworker’s tax return at gunpoint.

According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the robbery took place on April 5, 2022, in the 6400 block of Prescott Avenue, in the city’s North Riverfront neighborhood.

Police said Javon Harrison, 32, and Cedric L. Thompson (age not provided) noticed their coworker had received his tax return—approximately $3,000 in cash—and had it out at work. Harrison and Thompson later asked the victim if he wanted to come to lunch with them.