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Talk about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

A Toledo, OH-based Girl Scouts cookie sale manager has allegedly failed to hand in more than $10,000 raised by a recent cookie drive.

Despite numerous requests from the Western Ohio Girl Scouts organization, volunteer manager Tarra Kopp, 32, has refused to turn in the, er, dough.

Police were called in to investigate the situation and found that Kopp had written checks and made cash withdrawals from the troop’s bank account for a total of $11,986 over a four-month period.

“It was a substantial amount and it’s something we don’t take lightly,” Girl Scouts spokeswoman Shonna King said in an interview with Toledo News Now.

Kopp now faces charges of grand theft.

This article appears in Jul 3-9, 2013.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

One reply on “Ohio Girl Scouts Troop Manager Allegedly Steals $10,000 in Cookie Money”

  1. The most heinous issue surrounding Girl Scout cookies is not mentioned here, and that is that the troops only get 30% of the sales! The rest goes to Council, to support a bunch of administrators who do nothing but sit on their fat buts all day and work to close the beloved Girl Scout camps. Boycott Girl Scout cookies! If you want to support your local Girl Scout troop donate directly to the troop.

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