SAINT CLOUD, Fla.,None — Girl Scouts in Osceola County said someone stole hundreds of dollars they made from selling cookies.
The group spent more than a year raising money to go to Savannah, Ga., to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Girl Scout movement. Now 10-year-old Angelika Pabon and five other Girls Scouts in Troop 652 aren't sure if they will be going.
The group said they deposited $900 in the bank, but later, someone else took it out -- that's equivalent to 1,700 boxes of cookies.
"With all of the stuff that we've done that money shouldn't be been gone," Angelika said. "That's like really wrong to me."
Pabon's mother and troop leader Eva Pabon said she checked the troop's account Thursday and saw that an odd wire transfer of $900 was sent to the Philippines. She called her bank and it is now investigating.
The St. Cloud Police Department is also investigating. Wells Fargo Bank said it will refund the money to the troop if it determines there was no fraud involved.
In the meantime, the girls now have to plan what to do next. It will cost the troop $3,000 to attend the March event.
Eva Pabon said they'll do whatever it takes to make up the money, but she said in the end, people shouldn't be stealing from children.
"Now this one is gone. We will have to work three times harder, or we will have to cancel the trip and take the girls another time," Pabon said.
The scouts will sell the cookies in January and February. They do sell other items, but those funds are used for other activities.