KCEN-6 NEWS
09/26/07


Donations for the sons of a Temple police officer recently killed were stolen from a restaurant early Tuesday morning.

The owners of Dibz Restaurant in downtown Temple were raising money for the children of Officer David Camden who died in a motorcycle accident earlier this month. Dibz is just one block south of the police department.

It’s a place Officer Camden often ate at and officers are taking this burglary personal.

The owners of Dibz got a call from the police department a little after 5:00 in the morning, telling them their business had been broken into.

"The owner arrived and made a kind of disturbing discovery and found that the only thing that he could find missing from the restaurant was the cash donation buckets that he had placed at the front of the business for our fallen officer, Officer David Camden," Sergeant Brad Hunt with the Temple Police Department said.

Temple residents and business owners said they're disgusted by the callous burglary. "He was a good man. He was a good officer and we all are still grieving him. And we just buried him and now someone is robbing his children," Temple resident Sherri Slaton said.

The owners of Dibz have already put out another jar for officer Camden's children, to finish the good deed that they started.

"We're going to do this as long as we can, as long as they need it because we're not ever gonna stop supporting Officer Camden, his children, the family and the Temple Police Department," Dibz Restaurant owner Dennis Hobizal said.

Temple P.D. does have several leads and a suspect. 

"It’s personal with us because it was for one of our officer's families, but it was also charity. You know, and we take that very seriously.


It’s definitely going to be a high priority for us to try and find and solve this crime," Hunt added.

The owners of Dibz are planning to remove the new donation jar every night and people interested in donating to the family can also mail donations to the Officer David Camden Memorial Fund at Extraco Bank.

NOTE: Please give to this worthy cause and help the children of Officer David Camden.