Man steals cash box from Girl Scout cookie stand outside Maryland grocery store

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Police stated a person stole cash raised by a Lady Scout troop that was promoting cookies exterior a Maryland grocery retailer on Sunday.

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Police in Rockville stated a person swiped a money field containing cash earned from cookie gross sales from a stand exterior a Safeway grocery retailer, The Washington Put up reported.

Based on the Montgomery County Police Division, officers had been known as to the grocery retailer simply earlier than 2 p.m. EST, WUSA-TV reported. The sufferer stated she observed a person sitting on a bench close to the stand for about 20 minutes earlier than he bought up, snatched the field and fled the scene, in accordance with the tv station.

It was unclear how a lot cash was taken, WUSA reported. Officers searched the world for the person and tried to search out surveillance video of him leaving the scene, Montgomery County police spokesperson Lauren Ivey, informed the Put up in an e-mail.

“We’ve got near 24,000 ladies promoting Lady Scout cookies proper now and that is the primary incident,” Lidia Soto-Harmon, the CEO for the Lady Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital, informed WJLA-TV. “I’ve been the CEO for 12 years, and I’ve performed plenty of disaster communication items, and that is the primary time I’ve heard of one thing this occurring to one in every of our Lady Scouts.”

Nobody was damage, the Put up reported.

“You’d assume on a Sunday afternoon this wouldn’t occur, however we will’t management sure issues and sadly this stuff generally do occur,” Soto-Harmon informed the newspaper. “I feel there’s one thing that tugs on the hearts of individuals after they see there are ladies on the market attempting to fund their desires, and when one thing like this occurs, it actually upsets individuals.”

Soto-Harmon informed WJLA that Lady Scout coverage requires grownup chaperones to accompany any underage ladies who promote cookies in public. She stated that two grownup chaperones had been with the 2 middle-school-aged victims on the time of the theft.