CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A sweet day turned sour for two Chesapeake siblings selling lemonade after their money jar was stolen.
In surveillance video, a car starts to slowly approach the two children and a man comes out of the car. Rebecca Caldwell, a 10-year-old, told WAVY she started to pour him lemonade when he quickly grabbed the jar with their money and took off.
“We already got $40. It seemed pretty good, and then the guy came,” Rebecca said. “He acted really nice. He was just saying, like, ‘Nice, y’all are doing a lemonade stand.’ And then he was getting pretty close, but my back was turned so I didn’t really realize.”
Rebecca and her younger brother Josh Caldwell ran inside and told their mom they had been robbed.
“I just wanted to find out who would do that, because they’re just innocent kids out here, you know, having lemonade stands,” said Annetta Caldwell, Rebecca and Josh’s mother.
The two have held lemonade stands and bake sales outside their house in the past. They thought this time would be no different.