
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 9, 1994                   TAG: 9407120036
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Landmark News Service
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STOP THAT COOKIE MONSTER

VIRGINIA BEACH - Detectives are searching for a thief who stole a delivery truck laden with 500,000 cookies. The suspect's identifying marks could include a grotesquely oversized sweet tooth.

Virginia Beach police spokesman Lou Thurston said Norfolk police found the truck abandoned Friday at an intersection ``minus at least a half-million cookies.''

The Murray Cookies truck was stolen in Virginia Beach shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday from near a supermarket. The keys had been left on the dashboard.

Thurston said the cookies - including batches of Jack's cookies, Murray's cookies and Famous Amos cookies - were valued at $5,000. The truck also was valued at $5,000.

Detectives are operating on the assumption that it might be difficult to unload a half-million cookies on the streets of Hampton Roads without someone noticing. They are asking the public's help in cracking the cookie caper.

by CNB