Officials in Connecticut are asking for assistance catching a woman who was seen on camera swiping a donation jar at a liquor store.
Footage shows the woman, wearing a gray hoodie and sunglasses, enter East Haven Discount Wine and Liquors at a little before 4 p.m. She briefly looks around before taking the jar and leaving the store.
The store’s owner told police that the donation jar was set up to raise money for cancer research.
He added: “Seeing those little kids with cancer just broke me down one day when I was on the floor. So I said I’m going to pay it back.”
“Because people give them from their heart, and even if they don’t have the money, they’ll donate $.50 or a dollar just to be part of it,” he said.
Patel planned to match every dollar from the donation jar with his own money before the end of the year, reported WSFB.
“If she would’ve asked me for money I would’ve gave it to her,” Patel said. “Taking that kind of money from somebody—and it’s going to a good cause—that’s what bothered me, and I couldn’t sleep that night.”
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