CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Police in Virginia have made an arrest in a case that soured a lot of folks on human nature.
Chesapeake police said they found the man who walked up and stole money from a kids’ lemonade stand in Chesapeake earlier this month.
Police arrested Esteban Santillan, 19, in connection with the theft that was caught on surveillance camera. He has been charged with petit larceny.
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The story on the brazen theft went viral Aug. 14 when a man, who police believe was Santillan, made off with a money jar and the roughly $40 in it after 10-year-old Rebecca Caldwell and her brother Josh, 8, had set up their lemonade stand in front of their home on Bells Mills Road. The man then sped off in a Toyota sedan.
However, a surveillance camera was watching, and so were lots of folks in Hampton Roads after learning what happened. They were outraged, and 10 days later showed their overwhelming support .