A father simulates an assault to hide that he stole money from his teenage daughter

Police in Forest Grove, Oregon, received a call on the morning of March 6. The man on the other side of the phone told them that a thief had entered through a window and that the two had had a confrontation. Everything seemed very real, including the tone of concern that Brian Couture claimed to be defrauding his own daughter.

According to police reports, upon their arrival they would have found the man in a state of apparent shock so credible that they even had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital .

Two weeks later, the authorities still had no idea of ​​the attacker. And before the suspicions are over, Couture confessed that he had invented the badault hide that he had stolen his daughter 740 USD.

"Couture confessed to the Forest Grove police investigators that the alleged incident had been organized"said the police in a statement published online.

"The investigators believe that Couture organized the incident to hide the theft he committed to a non-profit organization and that he ended up spending" inappropriately, "says the report. elsewhere.

According to the information channel Kdrv, that money that the girl had earned by selling cookies with her friends Scouts.

Couture was arrested last Friday and had to appear in court where he pleaded not guilty to "misuse of the emergency notification system".

A Girl Scout spokesperson said that theft was a common practice in their organization. "Unfortunately, this happens to us regularly, especially with regard to sales of our products because of all the liquidity involved."Perhaps for this reason from now on, the group accepts card payments via an app.

"Since the arrest of March 18, we are in contact with the Forest Grove Police Department and we are currently working with them to resolve the problem. The administration of Girl Scout funds is a priority for our organization"concluded the report.