Four women were arrested after they allegedly ran out of Ross Dress For Less with stolen merchandise.
The women entered the store at Rolling Acres Plaza in The Villages on Wednesday night and stuffed merchandise into duffel bags and backpacks and ran out of the store, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. They fled in a silver Nissan.
An officer pulled the vehicle over at U.S. Hwy. 27/441 and Lakeview Street. Meanwhile, another police officer transported a Ross employee to the scene of the traffic stop where the employee positively identified the four women in the car as the same women who had fled the store with the merchandise.
The women facing grand theft charges are:
• Jamyeria Janshankik Bradley, 21, of Sanford.
• Ronise Rose Celestin, 24, of Orlando.
• Mercedes Kellona Howard, 20, of Sanford.
• Keairra Lynturra Walker, 28, of Orlando.
There were multiple bottles of liquor in the car, believed to have been stolen in Sumter County.
Howard was also wanted on an Orange County warrant charging her with failure to appear on a charge of human trafficking for commercial sexual activity of a child under the age of 18. She was also found to be in possession of cocaine.
All four women were booked at the Lake County Jail.
