Wanted: East Nashville Bake Sale Bandit

Worthy Matron Laura Taylor told WKRNNASHVILLE, TN -- A woman ran off with a cash box from an East Nashville bake sale Saturday, making off with more than $350.

The Masons of the Jere Baxter Lodge were holding their annual barbecue fundraiser and the associated Order of the Eastern Star was alongside with pies, brownies and cookies in a bake sale.

As things wrapped up, a young woman came to the Order's tent and asked if she could take a break in the shade and the women agreed.

"I said sure, I thought she's been out in the heat. She sat down got on her phone and just stayed there so we didn't pay any attention to her," Worthy Matron Laura Taylor told WKRN.

But an hour later, Taylor said the chapter's secretary began yelling.

"I heard her holler to, 'Stop! You got our cash box,'" she told the station.

"Me and two other members were trying to pound on her car doors, her windows, the hood of her car,” Taylor told NewsChannel 5. “We tried to get her to stop, but she sped away."

Taylor said the chapter has a lot of older members who stayed up into the wee hours baking. Someone posted about the theft on Facebook and some people came back and re-donated. The chapter uses the funds for various charity programs.

The thief is a woman in her mid-20s with tattoos on her right calf and right arm and long blonde hair. She was driving a green Chevrolet SUV.

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