A kitten who became an unwitting accomplice in a bungled bank robbery has landed on her feet with a loving new family. The panda-colored cat, now named Magnolia, went viral last month after a man used her in an attempted heist in Beltsville, Maryland, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. On July 13th, security video shows the man walk into a Pet Supplies Plus, grab the 3-month-old kitten from the adoption area, then run straight to a PNC Bank in the same shopping center. Witnesses said he walked up to a bank employee, asked them to hold the cat, then handed a teller a note demanding cash.
He clearly cased the pet store better than the bank, since Prince George’s County police quickly arrested him. Store employees said he had been coming in almost daily for weeks, always heading straight for the kitten. After her story made international news, the rescue group Beltsville Community Cats received 21 adoption applications, and Magnolia has now been adopted by two loving parents and has another kitten to play with. One rescue volunteer laughed that some people called Magnolia the mastermind of the attempted crime, while others insisted she was innocent, but can anything that cute be totally innocent?
Source: NBC Washington
