Thieves steal from nonprofit benefitting cancer patients

Shay Traylor said thieves smashed open the safe where it was and stole it.

"It looks like they had some type of tools," she said. "I don't understand how someone could come to our door, see the name 'Loving Arms Cancer Outreach' on the door, walk by the wig room where we give away wigs and hats and come back here and steal from us."

She said she is shocked by the theft that has set the nonprofit back.

“We're just a small company, a small nonprofit, and we're scraping by,” she said.

Loving Arms supports patients on their cancer journey. They have a waiting list of people in treatment who need help covering some of the endless extra costs.

Traylor called Marietta police about the weekend break-in. The office door was closed and locked but the thieves got past it.

Whoever broke in even tore up donation envelopes.

The nonprofit had to freeze its accounts. Volunteers want to upgrade security and get better locks.

“And now the patients are the ones who are going to suffer,” Traylor said. “God knows and he will take care of him.”