TOY THEFT INVESTIGATION

Cass County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 30-year old Tanya Ann Allen of Cass Lake on Monday for stealing toys from a United Way program. Bemidji Police Captain Bob Lehman said one of his officers, Tabitha Kerrigan did most of the work on the case. Kerrigan said a Walmart clerk told her there was something just not right about the woman who had recently picked up toys from the collection point. Police checked the surveillance video footage and later arrested Allen on an outstanding warrant. Captain Lehman said they have a picture of Officer Kerrigan, a diminutive woman, surrounded by hundreds of toys. Allen is in the Cass County Jail waiting charges. The toys were returned to the United Way Needy Child program, just in time for Christmas.