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| "WeÂ’re guarding the Swedish fish. Hurry." |
| 2008-04-11 |
| A 19-year-old Green Township mother is in the Hamilton County jail after Cincinnati police charged her with taking her newborn child along while she broke into a candy store. There's a mugshot at the link. She's . . . kinda chunky. Christine Ruther and three others are accused of breaking into Peter Minges & Son candy store, 138 W. Court St., downtown, shortly before 1 a.m. and swiping about $500 in candy, police said. The group was arrested a few blocks away at Fourth and Race streets when police caught up with them by following a trail of candy and candy wrappers. Leslie Betts, manager of the 103-year-old family candy distributing business, said the quartet stole every kind of candy imaginable: “Reece cups, Skittles, Twizzlers, you name it.” She said she learned of the break-in when Cincinnati police called her at home about 1:30 a.m. “You’ve been broken into,” she said they told her. “We’re guarding the Swedish fish. Hurry. Come down. We can’t leave the store. It’s wide open.” . . . |
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| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-04-11 13:55 |
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| Posted by: Christine Ruther 2008-04-11 10:46 |