Police: Jimmy Fund Donation Jar Thief Turns Himself in

44-year-old David DeShiro Jr. will be arraigned Friday afternoon

Authorities in Norwood, Massachusetts, say a man wanted seen on surveillance video stealing a Jimmy Fund donation jar from a convenience store on Thanksgiving Day has turned himself in.

Forty-four-year-old David DeShiro Jr. of Dedham turned himself in Friday morning, and will be arraigned on a larceny charge later in the afternoon.

The video posted on Facebook shows a bald man, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, grabbing the canister with his right hand and tucking it under his left arm as he turns to leave Ajay's Market.

Police say for more than 60 years they have been placing the cans in businesses around town in the hopes that people will donate their change. The Jimmy Fund pays for cancer research and care at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Police didn't say how much was in the canister but note that people often slip in $10 and $20 bills.

Watch the surveillance video below:

 
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Posted by Norwood Police Department on Thursday, November 26, 2015
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