ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Video from the Beef Jerky Experience shows a man rolling into the store. He asks the owner for a box, saying he's going to buy a lot of jerky, but he then waits for her to walk away from the register.
"Someone in a wheelchair is kind of unassuming, so you can never look away. Sometimes when you got a cookie jar open with money in it," store manager Ryan Monnier said. "(This was) definitely someone I think who knew what they were doing and plotting to do this."
The video then shows the man grab the bills from the tip jar and tuck them under his leg. The owner comes back with the box and the man quickly rolls out of the store.
"It's a donation jar, so we didn't think we needed to guard it," Monnier said.
Monnier has been working at the store since it opened in June. He said the jar has helped raise more than $1,000 for a good cause.
"We get a lot of donations for Mission Blue Ink, and that's where the money goes -- to first responders here in Orlando who have been injured in the line of duty," Monnier said.
Monnier said he doesn't think the crook took the time to read the flier near the jar and has a message for him.
"I don't think that he knew. Maybe if he did, he would have thought twice," Monnier said. "You can stay out of the Beef Jerky Experience, buddy. You don't want to come back. You're not welcome."
Since the incident, the store has added a lid to the tip jar, but the crook is still out there.
Anyone with information about the incident can call the Orange County Sheriff's Office.