Girl Scout Cookie Money Thieves One Year Later

It still has people talking. It's been exactly one year since the theft January 30,2008. Who can forget Diana Zeltser, the redhead and her blonde friend Stefanie Woods, who made headlines for stealing about $160 dollars from a nine-year old girl selling Girl Scout Cookies outside a Winn Dixie at Jog and Hypoluxo.
"Basically me and my friend Stefanie we needed some money. We saw a girl selling Girl Scout cookies, we saw an envelope with money in it and I grabbed it and she drove away," said Diana Zeltser last January 31, the day after the theft.
Zeltser said she really wasn't sorry about it.
"It's not her money. A nine-year old girl was selling it. But it's not like she was gonna make that money. So it doesn't really bother me. The only thing that bothers me is my charges now," Zeltser said.
Then of course, there was her friend Stefanie, who also wasn't the least bit sorry.
"My friend goes into Winn Dixie, I was waiting outside of here, like ready to leave. So she grabs the envelope, she snatched it really quick. She ran to my car and we left and we parked and we split the money," Woods said January 31, 2008.
Stefanie found the whole thing funny.
"Why did you do it? I mean who doesn't, who doesn't like money? I mean, I don't know. But it's a crime. I know it was a crime, but it was an easy crime," Woods said, laughing.
Stefanie was later convicted. Her lawyer Lewis Hanna says she is now in a high-risk, lockdown juvenile facility in north Florida near Tallahassee. The court ruled she has a drug problem and needed intensive drug treatment. Hanna believes the program is not doing her much good, because he says she only receives counseling once a week and is just given pamphlets to read. He thinks she needs to be in a 30 day in-patient treatment center.
He says the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has not set a date for Woods' release, but she could finish the treatment in April. Woods will be 19 in less than a week.
As for Diana Zeltser, now 18, Hanna says the state gave her immunity if she would testify against Stefanie. I could not reach her for comment when I went to her home.
But Zeltser later said by phone quote: "Do you know how well I'm doing?  I'm in school, I'm in college. Do you want to ruin my life? I would not like to speak to anybody. It's not anybody's business. I'm not gonna speak about this."  The mother of the little Girl Scout who was the victim of the theft that day, Gracie Smith, declined to comment on the one year anniversary of the caper.