--- title: Girl Scout Leader Stealing Thousands of Cookies description: The Kentucky troop's leader is accused of making off with $15,000 worth of cookies this winter canonical: https://time.com/4782402/girl-scout-leader-stolen-cookies/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T17:36:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:43.345Z og:title: Girl Scout Leader Accused of Stealing Thousands of Cookies og:description: A Kentucky troop is out $15,000 after the leader made off with the cookies og:url: https://time.com/4782402/girl-scout-leader-stolen-cookies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Girl Scout Leader Accused of Stealing Thousands of Cookies twitter:description: A Kentucky troop is out $15,000 after the leader made off with the cookies twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Girl Scout Troop Leader Who Allegedly Stole $15,000 Worth of Cookies Is At Large > Sponsored content. 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According to the case, she picked them up for her troop, but apparently never brought the boxes to the girls to be sold, meaning that they are now out about $15,000 thanks to the missing sweets. Ultimately, the Wilderness Road chapter of Scouts went to the authorities about the theft. “She has never paid for any of them and, anyone who has tried to contact her about them, has not been able to contact her,” Pike Commonwealth’s attorney Rick Bartley told the _Express_. “It looks like she picked up the cookies and, now, she and the cookies have disappeared.” This year, boxes of the nationally-beloved pre-packaged cookies sold for $4 to $5 a pop, depending on the buyer’s location. That means that Vick may have taken as many as 3,000 boxes of [Thin Mints](http://time.com/money/4102788/thin-mints-samoas-girl-scout-cookie-price-increase-2015/), Tagalogs, and the rest, given the total value of the boxes. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782402/girl-scout-leader-stolen-cookies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782402/girl-scout-leader-stolen-cookies/"},"headline":"Girl Scout Troop Leader Who Allegedly Stole $15,000 Worth of Cookies Is At Large","datePublished":"2017-05-17T17:36:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:43.345Z","description":"The Kentucky troop's leader is accused of making off with $15,000 worth of cookies this winter","url":"https://time.com/4782402/girl-scout-leader-stolen-cookies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Food & Drink","Girl Scouts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782402/girl-scout-leader-stolen-cookies/","name":"Girl Scout Troop Leader Who Allegedly Stole $15,000 Worth of Cookies Is At Large"}}]}] ```