MOUNT CARMEL, Tenn. - An 8-year-old became the most popular boy in class when he started handing out $50 bills during a field trip. But he didn't win any gold stars from the police or his mother, who reported the nearly $1,600 in cash stolen from her purse.
Mount Carmel Police Detective Will Mullins answered a robbery call at Terenia Cipro's house on May 20. He found her empty purse in her bedroom, but no signs of forced entry.
Cipro, 43, learned later that her son had gotten into her pocketbook that morning, taken the money to school at Carters Valley Elementary School and began giving it away during a class trip.
He handed out about half the money before one of his third-grade teachers saw what was happening and stopped him. At last report, about $500 was still missing.
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