Thieves grab cash boxes from Scouts’ cookie booths
March 5, 2013 - 10:59 am
TUCSON, Ariz. — Two Tucson-area Girl Scout troops were crime victims as thieves grabbed and ran off with the troops’ cash boxes from cookie sales.
The Arizona Daily Star (http://bit.ly/165PQkr ) reports that both thefts took place over the weekend.
In one case, two women spoke with girls selling cookies outside a grocery store before one of the women grabbed the cash box containing about $375. The women fled in a car that had its license plate covered.
In the second case, a man grabbed a box with about $250 from a troop’s table outside a bookstore. He ran off and hopped a nearby fence.
Debbie Rich, CEO of Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona, says the Girl Scouts will consider what they can do to improve security, possibly including training for different scenarios.