Officer allegedly switched price tags

Woman resigns from Sanger department after her arrest at Denton store

A Sanger police officer resigned Monday morning after being arrested Sunday and accused of changing price tags on clothing in a Denton store.

Lisa Diane Kish

Lisa Diane Kish, 33, of Sanger was free Monday on $500 bail on a charge of fraudulent destruction, removal or concealment of a writing. She could not be reached for comment.

Sanger Police Chief Curtis Amyx said Kish was waiting for him when he arrived at work Monday.

“She handed me a letter with her resignation,” Amyx said.

Police officers who have been arrested traditionally are placed on paid administrative leave pending disposition of their cases.

Kish and another woman, Stephanie Grant, were shopping at Wal-Mart in Denton, said Denton police spokesman Jim Bryan. Store employees allegedly observed the two women removing sale price stickers from some articles of clothing and placing them on other tags for clothing that was not on sale, Bryan said.

Hobby had sweet start

Sugar was in short supply when John Coxsey was a teenager during World War II, so his dad foraged outside their Pilot Point home for another way to provide the family sweets.

“He found two bee trees and brought them home,” Coxsey said.

The family’s sweet tooth never wanted after that. Coxsey’s mother used honey to make desserts, cakes and cookies — everything she used to make with sugar, he said.

That creative bit of problem-solving inspired a lifelong hobby for the retired firefighter and emergency medical technician, who’s now 76 years old.

“They’re the most fascinating insect God ever put on Earth,” Coxsey said.

Over the years, Coxsey kept bees and sold the honey, learning by trial and error and by be­friending other beekeepers. He knows how many eggs the queen lays in a day (2,500 to 3,000), how long until the larvae hatch (about two weeks) and how long they stay inside before they get to work (another two weeks).

“Then they work so hard they fly their wings off in 30 days,” Coxsey said.

He knows of the many uses for honey and the byproducts of the hive. But he regrets not knowing, until recently, that the cosmetic industry pays a premium for propolis, the material bees create to cement their hives together.

Propolis is believed to have antibacterial and cleansing properties and is used in deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and other toiletries.

“All these years, I’ve just been throwing that stuff away,” Coxsey said.

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