WATCH ABOVE: A Cole Harbour woman is taking to social media to try and find out who stole a jar of donations she was collecting for breast cancer research. Global’s Steve Silva reports.
COLE HARBOUR, N.S. – A convenience store owner hopes to find the people responsible for stealing her donation jar by sharing a video of the alleged crime online.
“My heart just, it sunk,” said Rebecca Lambe Tuesday morning.
The jar housed donations for Lambe’s attempt at the CIBC Run for the Cure. Over the month it was there, she estimated up to $100 was collected, though the lost money isn’t being credited as the worst part of the experience.
“It’s the fact that they stole from a charity something that I’ve worked really hard to raise money for,” said Lambe.
The incident happened at around 2:40 p.m. on Monday. A man and woman are seen on surveillance video working together to covertly steal the jar all in under two minutes while an employee attended to customers a few steps away.
Lambe, who was not at the store at the time of the incident, posted the video on Facebook (below) yesterday evening, attracting over 150,000 views so far.
Halifax RCMP have identified two people in the video and are currently investigating.
Cpl. Greg Church, media relations officer at Halifax District RCMP, said that people should be careful with posting similar videos online because of the possibility of retaliation.
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“In some circumstances, the police investigators may know who the individuals are. So by releasing the video surveillance tapes with the individuals on them, that could actually slow the investigation down,” he said.
The best thing to do, Church added, is to contact police first, which Lambe did.
Tom Redford, vice president at Wilsons Security, said that security camera systems similar to Lambe’s can be installed in a few hours and cost under a thousand dollars.
“The payback is certainly there because more and more incidents are caught on video, and it’s so easy to post it to the internet or provide it to law enforcement,” he said.
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