Lemonade stand thief brought to justice

by julianw | June 17, 2008 at 12:01 pm | 425 views | 6 comments | 2 recommendations

I wanted to give this story a funny title like "Lemonade stand theft turns sour," but frankly its way too depressing for that. In Indiana, Steve Tron robbed a little girl's lemonade stand before running into a nearby house.  He didn't get away with his dastardley deed, though: the cops showed up within an hour to arrest him. Let that be a lesson to all lemonade stand thieves.

A young girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the young man into surrendering.

"The guy came up and was, like, 'Give me your money,' " said Dominique Morefield, who was running the lemonade stand with a group of friends. "I was shocked. It was just my immediate reaction to chase after him."

Dominique dashed after the man who ran into a house, and then she called police. Officers eventually persuaded Steve Tryon, 18, to come outside after 45 minutes and arrested him on a preliminary felony charge of robbery.

The kids said they would continue to sell lemonade, but with an adult's supervision.
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Rob Peters

Ha, good for her for sticking up for herself.

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at 13:04 on June 17th, 2008

julianw, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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amyjudd

Who does that!? That's just weird...

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eastvanray

Maybe she should save her lemonade money to buy a pistol.

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xBetty Butcharx

i just draw silly things :P

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julianw

Update: this isn't the first lemonade stand heist on record. Last summer, an eleven-year old juice vendor was victimized in a violent theft.

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June 17, 2008 at 12:01 pm by julianw, 425 views, 6 comments

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