ST. LOUIS • Technology helped city police capture an Illinois man suspected of robbing as many as 14 people downtown, sometimes violently, officials said Friday. He also is suspected of looting in Ferguson.

St. Louis prosecutors charged Roy Brown, 27, of the 5900 block of Hallows Avenue in Washington Park, earlier this week with three counts of first-degree robbery, 11 counts of second-degree robbery and two counts of resisting arrest. Judge Michael Mullen set cash-only bail at $250,000.

The spree ran from Nov. 27 to Dec. 23, when Brown was arrested after a short pursuit into Illinois, said Capt. Renee Kriesmann, the Fourth District commander.

“This is a guy who has been victimizing the downtown area at different times, different dates and different locations,” Kriesmann said.

She credited the department’s Real Time Crime Center at headquarters, which brings together information from surveillance cameras and other resources.

“It assists us in arrests almost every day, but this is a bigger, longer investigation,” she said.