Massachusetts cop buys Christmas dinner for women caught stealing groceries

foxnews.com:

When a Massachusetts cop saw what two women were trying to steal from a grocery store five days before Christmas, their plight touched his heart. "It was all food," he observed.

So instead of arresting them, he bought a $250 gift card to pay for their Christmas dinner. Officer Matt Lima of the Somerset Police Department said he responded to a call at the local Stop & Shop and was told the women had been caught skipping the scanner at the self-checkout line, putting several items straight into their bags.

The suspected shoplifters were with two young children. "I have two girls myself, similar in age to the two girls that were there, so it kind of struck me a little bit," Lima told local NBC affiliate WJAR.