Credit: Somerset Police Department SOMERSET, Mass. - A Massachusetts police officer declined to charge two women accused of trying to steal groceries for the children — and instead bought them Christmas dinner.Somerset Officer Matt Lima responded to a report of shoplifting Dec.
20 at Stop & Shop, where two women with two young children were accused of putting groceries into bags at a self-checkout kiosk without scanning them.RELATED: Clearwater server shares generous $2,000 tip with co-workers, familyThe women said they had fallen on hard times and were trying to provide a Christmas dinner for the children.