ARNOLD, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) -
A sour crime: Police are looking for a large M&M candy man stolen from a convenience store in Arnold, Missouri as customers and a clerk looked on in disbelief. Why would anyone want to steal the little guy and why was he stolen in the first place? These are just a few questions being raised as cops try to crack the caper. But there is some good news: the "candy-napper" was caught on tape.
"He had on a red Cardinals baseball cap before he came in and bought his beer a few minutes earlier," said Melissa Crane, a detective with the Arnold police.
Crane is the lead detective in this terrible abduction of one of her city's landmark leaders. The M&M candy display man is somewhere and surveillance video shows the man who stole him. He came into the store earlier and bought a 30-pack of beer.
Fifteen minutes later he returned, bareheaded, threw the packs of M&Ms on the floor and walked out with the display man under his arm.
"In the video it shows one customer actually holding the door open for him while he was emptying out the candy," Detective Crane said.
Clerk Lonnie Joyce says during the first visit the man offered $20 for the display but was turned down. He left and came back.
"Then he picked it up and ran outside with the two girls that he was with," Joyce said.
One drove the getaway car, an early model burgundy 4-door Honda.
The M&M statue costs about $300. Anyone with information should contact the Arnold, Missouri police.
"He had on a red Cardinals baseball cap before he came in and bought his beer a few minutes earlier," said Melissa Crane, a detective with the Arnold police.
Crane is the lead detective in this terrible abduction of one of her city's landmark leaders. The M&M candy display man is somewhere and surveillance video shows the man who stole him. He came into the store earlier and bought a 30-pack of beer.
Fifteen minutes later he returned, bareheaded, threw the packs of M&Ms on the floor and walked out with the display man under his arm.
"In the video it shows one customer actually holding the door open for him while he was emptying out the candy," Detective Crane said.
Clerk Lonnie Joyce says during the first visit the man offered $20 for the display but was turned down. He left and came back.
"Then he picked it up and ran outside with the two girls that he was with," Joyce said.
One drove the getaway car, an early model burgundy 4-door Honda.
The M&M statue costs about $300. Anyone with information should contact the Arnold, Missouri police.
