Have you watched the news lately? If so you most-likely have heard a tale about a parent involved in stealing something with one of their children. Perhaps, because I counsel both in-class and online stop theft classes, I am hyper-sensitive to the issue.

It is amazing how many people steal from dollar stores. In many of these locales all items are $1. In Virginia, two women, who turned out to be a mother and her daughter were arrested and charged with shoplifting from a Dollar General store. As reported in www.covnews.com.

The two sticky-fingers gals, Stephanie Cox and her daughter Taylor Jones, were still inside the store. A store employee told officers that the women had taken one of the purses from the store off the display shelf, removed the packing and were "shopping" by placing merchandise inside the purse from the store, while one carried it over her shoulder as if she had come in with it.

The officer waited until Cox exited the store. Ever-the-brazen thief, Cox walked toward the officers and asked, "What is going on? A customer said there were a bunch of police out here."

Police made Cox go back inside. Her daughter seeing her mother busted tried to escape.

Like many shoplifters, Cox had the $200 to pay for the merchandise.

Not surprisingly, this was not Cox’s first shoplifting arrest, but her third. I hope she is mandated to a good stop theft class.