An ex-con who admitted stealing hundreds of dollars in cookie money from a Girl Scout in Lansing was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Thomas Dawkins also admitted snatching a woman’s purse at a Lansing store two days earlier. Dawkins has a history of violent crimes.
Dawkins grabbed a box containing about $600 from a table near the entrance of a Kmart store . The girl, who uses a wheelchair, was selling Girl Scout cookies with her mother.