Hill says she was stealing for Father’s Day present

A woman who was caught trying to steal her father a present on Father’s Day will serve 48 hours behind bars.
The defendant, Laryssa Hill, 26, was ordered by General Sessions Judge Larry Ross to serve 48 hours of a six-month sentence and has been banned from Wal-Mart for shoplifting.
According to a Wal-Mart loss prevention agent, Hill was seen in the men’s department, taking clothes off hangers and placing them in the top part of her shopping cart. She then did the same thing in the women’s department before making her way to the shoe department where she placed a pair of flip-flops in her cart.
As undercover officers continued watching, Hill went to the grocery section where she stuffed the stolen items into her bag and proceeded to the checkout line where she bought some groceries but made no mention of the items she had stuck in her purse. She was stopped as she exited the store and the items recovered.
During questioning, Hill claimed she was stealing the items to give as a present to her father for Father’s Day. In accepting the plea agreement, Judge Ross wondered aloud if she thought her father would be ‘proud’ of her actions in that she was caught shoplifting on Father’s Day.