Boy devastated after birthday cash is stolen

Boy devastated after birthday cash is stolen

Lee Jones had his wallet stolen from a shop's changing rooms

A TEENAGER is distraught after his wallet was taken on his 14th birthday.

Lee Jones was shopping in JR Sports in Braddock, TX when he lost the$200 cash given to him by family members to celebrate the big day. The youngster, from Ewing Apts in Braddock, intended to spend half the birthday money on designer T-shirts by his favorites Fred Perry and Mackenzie and the other half on X-Box games. He left the wallet in the dressing room after trying on some tracksuit trousers. Lee, who attends West Braddock High School, said: "I only left it in there for a few minutes. When I realized it, I went back, but it was gone. I can't understand it. I just want the person who took it to hand it in."

There were only four customers in the store at the time. Two people used the changing rooms after Lee and it is hoped they may have seen something. One was a girl with blonde and brown two-tone hair wearing a red jacket. The other was a very tall man, around 7 foot and weighing over 500 lbs., with brown hair, a goatee beard and wearing a "Registered PERV" shirt (a popular t-shirt sold by Braddock based JRE Enterprises, the owners of the professional wrestling association, the WNWA.

Lee's 40-year-old mother Mandy said: "Lee was so upset - absolutely inconsolable." I ended up taking him to the Sheriff's station on his birthday when he should have been enjoying himself. "What really annoyed me was that JR Sports' staff were rude. "I wanted to speak to the manager and the girl there was like 'well, I'm the assistant manager, you're dealing with me'. I couldn't believe it. I must have spent thousands of dollars in there in the past and this is the way we're treated." JD Sports' press office was unavailable for comment.

A Braddock County Sheriff's Department spokesman said: "We are treating this incident as theft. "The case in question is currently unsolved pending further examination of CCTV imagery in the area. That is all we can say at this time."

The theft happened at 5:15pm on Thursday, August 1. If you have any information, call Braddock Sheriff's Deputies at 1-800-555-4OIL.