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Mom Pleads Guilty To Stealing Money From Daughter's Girl Scout Troop

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (CBS4) - A woman in Clifton, near Grand Junction, pleaded guilty to stealing money raised by her daughter's Girl Scout Troop.

Girl Scout Cookie Embezzlement (Jennifer Hooten, from Mesa County SO via Grand Junction Sentinel)
Jennifer Hooten (credit: CBS)

Jennifer Hooten, 32, stole the money from the troop's cookie sales, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Hooten was arrested in May and has already paid back $1,000, but a judge ordered her to pay back the remaining $1,400 to the troop.

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