Michele Renee Lara, a 37-year-old homeless woman, armed herself with a field hockey stick and paintball grenade while wearing a hockey mask as she tried to leave a Sports Authority store in Santa Ana with two shopping carts of merchandise on Monday, according to the O.C. Register.
Lara arrived at the Sports Authority store located at 3900 South Bristol St., at around 6:30 p.m. and she spent about three hours filling up the two shopping carts with all sorts of sporting goods. She also began to put on some of the merchandise and was also putting goods into backpacks that she also placed in the carts.
Finally at around 9:30 pm. Lara tried to leave the store with all the goodies – but she did not pay for the merchandise. Continue reading