Crime & Safety

Stealing the Tip Jar

A woman grabbed the cash from the tip jar at a Brookfield Starbucks.

What kind of bad karma follows someone who steals from a tip jar?

A woman might find out after grabbing the $25 to $30 in $1 dollar bills from a tip jar at , 17000 W. Blue Mound Road in the Brookfield Fashion Center, about 7 p.m. Thursday.

The coffee shop surveillance video caught the theft, and police described the woman being sought as a white female in her 20s, about 5 feet, 10 inches and 160 pounds with a gap between her two front teeth.

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