(July 28, 2016) Police have a person of interest in the July 5 robbery of Copy Central, according to the business’s owner, Linda Dearing, who added on Monday that an overwhelming amount of generosity had come in from members of the community following the crime.
Along with several hundred dollars in the register, the suspect took a container holding about $750 set aside for Gina’s Comfort Fund, a charity established to honor Dearing’s daughter, the late Gina Barnes, who died of colon cancer in 2014.
The thief was caught on the store’s video surveillance and appeared to be a while male.
State Police Trooper Zais, assigned to the case, was unavailable to comment.
“It had been such an emotional time for me because the amount of people coming in here, bringing in money or sending checks in the mail with notes. It’s overwhelming how wonderful people had been in this county,” Dearing said. “Businesses, customers, even people who had moved to Florida saw [the story] and sent a little note and a check for $25. It just warms my heart to know.”
Dearing said new donations were triple the amount taken during the robbery.
“So there was that evil person that came in here, but the amount of angels that out of there in this community supporting somebody’s cause is just amazing,” she said.
The container that held the cash included a picture of Barnes and a blue ribbon for colon cancer awareness. Dearing said she had not yet replaced it.
“It was one of those plastic things that pretzel rods came in,” she said. “But we had it all wrapped with my daughter’s picture. That’s what upset me so bad – when I watched the video, the guy set the jar on the rail out back, and it was like he carried her out of here because it had her picture on it.”
To donate to Gina’s Comfort Fund, visit the shop at 11065 Cathell Road, or call 410-208-064.
Along with several hundred dollars in the register, the suspect took a container holding about $750 set aside for Gina’s Comfort Fund, a charity established to honor Dearing’s daughter, the late Gina Barnes, who died of colon cancer in 2014.
The thief was caught on the store’s video surveillance and appeared to be a while male.
State Police Trooper Zais, assigned to the case, was unavailable to comment.
“It had been such an emotional time for me because the amount of people coming in here, bringing in money or sending checks in the mail with notes. It’s overwhelming how wonderful people had been in this county,” Dearing said. “Businesses, customers, even people who had moved to Florida saw [the story] and sent a little note and a check for $25. It just warms my heart to know.”
Dearing said new donations were triple the amount taken during the robbery.
“So there was that evil person that came in here, but the amount of angels that out of there in this community supporting somebody’s cause is just amazing,” she said.
The container that held the cash included a picture of Barnes and a blue ribbon for colon cancer awareness. Dearing said she had not yet replaced it.
“It was one of those plastic things that pretzel rods came in,” she said. “But we had it all wrapped with my daughter’s picture. That’s what upset me so bad – when I watched the video, the guy set the jar on the rail out back, and it was like he carried her out of here because it had her picture on it.”
To donate to Gina’s Comfort Fund, visit the shop at 11065 Cathell Road, or call 410-208-064.