Juliana Rozanski and her little sister walked into the Glendale police station Monday evening lugging a wagon full of Girl Scout cookies.
The girls brought about 30 boxes — their entire remaining stock — as a thank you to the roughly two dozen Glendale dispatchers and police officers who together donated $165 to the 9-year-old after she lost her cookie-money purse.
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During a trip to the headquarters with other Brownies from her troop, Juliana also got to try on a bulletproof vest and see what handcuffs look like up close.
“It was one of those great experiences that just kind of defines, I think, how they will look at police officers,” said Juliana’s father, Rod.
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Young Girl Scout Juliana Rozanski, 9, with help from her father Rod, sister Tessa, 6, Glendale Police dispatcher Sally Chong, and Maddie Bohman, 16, hand out $160 of Girl Scout Cookies at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Tessa Rozanski, 6, wiht her sister Juliana, 9, go into a box of Girl Scout Cookies to give to officers at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Young Girl Scout Juliana Rozanski, 9, grabs the handle of her wagon now empty of Girl Scout Cookies at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Girl Scout Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, is interviewed by television reporters at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Girl Scout Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, laughs when Juliana Rozanski, 9, mentions that Maddie is going to be her babysitter, at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Glendale Police dispatcher Sally Chong is interviewed by Los Angeles television reporters over the watchful eye of Juliana Rozanski, 9, at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. Dispatcher Chong was moved when she received the call about the loss of young Girl Scout Juliana’s Hello Kitty purse she was using to sell Girl Scout Cookies, and organized late shift officers who chipped in $160 to help offset the loss. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Young Girl Scout Juliana Rozanski, 9, tells Glendale police officers her story at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Glendale Police Lieutenant Lola Abrahamian is given a box of Girl Scout Cookies by Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Tessa Rozanski, 6, with her sister Juliana, 9, carry boxes of Girl Scout Coookies to hand out to officers at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Rod Rozanski, of Glendale, when he realizes Glendale Police dispatcher Sally Chong is the woman he talked with when he called about his daughter’s Hello Kitty purse and how it was lost, at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of the purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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A big group of Glendale Police officers stand with Girl Scouts Maddie Bohman, 14, and Juliana Rozanski, 9, at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Young Girl Scout Juliana Rozanski walks surrounded by Glendale police officers at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, stands with television news photographers and a reporter as her mother Sharla takes a picture at the Glendale Police Department in Glendale on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Maddie Bohman, 14, looks back at Glendale police officers at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found by Maddie, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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The night shift of Glendale police officers gather in a roll call room at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Juliana Rozansi, 9, with family members and Maddie Bohman, 14, wait to hand out $160 of Girl Scout Cookies at the Glendale Police Department on Monday, Mar. 7, 2016. The officers of the GPD chipped in $160 to help offset the loss of a Hello Kitty purse Juliana lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. When the purse with $150 was found, the donation by the officers turned into sales and Juliana brought the officers $160 in cookies and gave them to them during a shift meeting. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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With her Hello Kitty purse in hand, Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale and Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, get together for a photo in Glendale on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Bohman, while on a walk with her mother, found a Hello Kitty purse that Juliana had lost while selling Girl Scout Cookies. The Glendale Police were notified, and several officers chipped in to raise $160 to cover for the young girl’s losses. Juliana, with help from her father, Rod, also put up signs in the neighborhood which were seen by the Bohman’s who had found the Hello Kitty purse. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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First year Girl Scout Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, checks out the money in her Hello Kitty purse that was just returned to her in Glendale on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Recently, when Juliana was rolling a wagon door-to-door filled with Girl Scout Cookies, her Hello Kitty purse filled with $150 she had collected in sales fell out onto the street. The Glendale Police were notified, and several officers chipped in to raise $160 to cover for the young girl’s losses. Juliana, with help from her father, Rod, also put up signs in the neighborhood which were seen by the Bohman’s who had found the Hello Kitty purse. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Rod Rozanski, of Glendale, is given a Hello Kitty purse from Maddie Bohman, 14, in her Glendale home on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Recently, while walking with her mom, Maddie found the purse on a Glendale street after Rod’s daughter, Juliana, had lost it while rolling a wagon door-to-door selling Girl Scout Cookies. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, shows Tessa, 6, and Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, all of the pins she has earned over her Girl Scout career selling Girl Scout Cookies in her Glendale home on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Bohman’s experience selling Girl Scout Cookies helped her recognize the Hello Kitty purse filled with $150 in cash she and her mother found while on a walk. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, shows Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, a social media account with all kinds of positive feedback about the finding of young Juliana’s Hello Kitty purse filled with Girl Scout Cookie money in Glendale on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Juliana’s dad, Rod, is behind her. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Girl Scout Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, greets Girl Scout Brownie Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, at her front door in Glendale on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Rozanski, with her father Rod, and her sister Tessa, 6, came to the Bohman home to recover the Hello Kitty purse Maddie and her mom found while on a walk recently. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
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Maddie Bohman, 14, of Glendale, gives a Disney Hello Kitty toy to Juliana Rozanski, 9, of Glendale, in Glendale on Thursday, Mar. 3, 2016. Recently, when Juliana was rolling a wagon door-to-door filled with Girl Scout Cookies, the Hello Kitty purse she holding, filled with $150 she had collected in sales fell out onto the street. The Glendale Police were notified, and several officers chipped in to raise $160 to cover for the young girl’s losses. Juliana, with help from her father, Rod, also put up signs in the neighborhood which were seen by the Bohman’s who had found the Hello Kitty purse. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Last Monday, Rod Rozanski called Glendale police when Juliana’s Hello Kitty purse went missing after an evening of selling cookies door-to-door. It had $150 inside.
“I felt really bad,” said dispatcher Sally Chong, who took the call, adding that she was imagining “how long it must have taken for her to sell those cookies.”
So Chong sent out a message to all the dispatchers and officers on duty, asking if they’d be willing to donate a few dollars each for Juliana.
“The majority of everyone working all pitched in — we were able to make more than she had lost,” Chong said. “It made me feel good.”
Meanwhile, that same night, another Girl Scout, Maddie Bohman, found the tiny purse while walking in the area, and was able to track Juliana down through posters her younger sister put up around the neighborhood.
Maddie met Juliana last week to return the purse.
“Both of them doing that independently, for a 9-year-old little girl, is pretty remarkable,” Rod Rozanski said.
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Alene Tchekmedyian, alene.tchekmedyian@latimes.com
Twitter: @atchek
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