UPDATED: Town and Country Police Pursue Van After Chesterfield Mall Robbery Call

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were involved in a police pursuit Thursday as authorities tried to catch a car in connection to a reported robbery at Chesterfield Mall.

A 24-year-old woman and 21-year-old man were suspects in a shoving incident with a store clerk during a shoplifting attempt. The 24-year-old was detained by police, Chesterfield police said.

The 21-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman then apparently fled in a silver Pontiac Montana.

Police Captain Gary Hoelzer tells Town and Country - Manchester Patch the pursuit began in Frontenac after the alleged robbery. Town and Country police became involved when the van, with two people inside, moved through Town and Country on northbound Interstate 270.

The chase finally ended when the female driver of the van was heading east on Page and drove between two cars on the Lindbergh overpass. She then struck another car in that location, just east of Maryland Heights, in unincorporated St. Louis County.

Hoelzer said the initial call was for second degree robbery, which involves stealing by force but without a deadly weapon.

Chesterfield Police Lt. Steve Lewis confirms to Patch that no weapon was involved, but that the incident started from a reported shoplifting at Chesterfield mall where a store clerk was pushed, making the crime an assault associated with a stealing which classifies it as a robbery. Lewis stated that he is not sure what store the alleged shoplifting took place.