Scouts Getting Lesson in Law From Cookie Mom Suspected in Theft

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According to other mothers in her Girl Scout troop, Tamara Ward promised the girls a "big trip" with their earnings from cookie and nut sales. They certainly earned it, selling between 8,000 and 13,000 cookie boxes a year.

The trip to Disney World never materialized, at least not for the troop members. Detectives have told the families that Ward, who is charged with stealing $18,000 from the now-disbanded Troop 2162, spent some of the money taking her family on several trips to the Florida theme park as well as Niagara Falls and Dollywood.

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Scouts Getting Lesson in Law From Cookie Mom Suspected in Theft

Instead, the "big trip" came Tuesday morning, July 29, in the form of an excursion to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. The girls attended Ward's preliminary hearing and watched as their former troop lea...

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