Urbandale Woman Faces Theft Charge for $3,000 Worth of Girl Scout Cookies

The Urbandale Police Department has charged a woman with stealing about 28 cases of Girl Scout cookies worth rougly $3,000, the Des Moines Register reports.

Denise Gordon-Kamm, 59, allegedly wrote a check March 6 to purchase several cases of cookies at the Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa office on Hickman Road, Urbandale police Sgt. Gary Lang told the newspaper. The check wasn’t good when the organization tried to deposit it.

When someone from the Girl Scouts office visited Gordon-Kamm’s Urbandale house to recover the cookies, about 28 cases were discovered in her car.

Girl Scouts officials called police for help retrieving the cookies, Lang told the Register. An officer at the scene reportedly convinced Gordan-Camm to return the cases.

The officer followed Gordon-Kamm back to the Girl Scouts office, where she returned 10-12 cases of cookies, Lang said. Gordon-Kamm was charged with first-degree theft.

Police do not know where the other cases went.

Officials with the Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa declined to comment on the incident.