Thief stuffs 75 bottles of lotion into pants
A Massachusetts shoplifter was arrested with so much body lotion stuffed into his pants that officers couldn’t fit him into a police car. Chamil Guadarrama, 30, robbed a mall store of no fewer than 75 eight-ounce bottles of lotion, police said, stuffing them in pants that were tied with string at the ankles. When police tried to take him to the station, said a police spokesman, “they could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over.”
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