Florida Man Arrested After Stealing and Drinking Vodka at Walmart

Shopping at Wal Mart can be stressful, and sometimes you just want to take the edge off. That's what 42 year old Florida Man James John Perez with a bottle of vodka did last Friday at a Walmart in Sebastian Florida. Sebastian is on the East Coast, just north of Port St. Lucie - I had to look it up.

So last Friday around 2pm, James grabbed a bottle of McCormick Vodka from the liquor store section of the Walmart, along with some roadies - a 6 pack of Smirnoff Ice in the cans. According to the Sebastian Daily "A Walmart employee working the sales floor observed Perez consuming the vodka beverages and placing the empty containers on the shelf. He then walked around the men’s department, put a couple of pairs of socks in his pocket, and discarded the packaging. Perez then put on a pair of pants and tossed the sales tags on the floor."

When officers arrived on scene James was still roaming the store drinking from a can of Smirnoff Ice. They found on Florida Man -  three pairs of socks, a half empty bottle of McCormick Vodka, scissors, a pocket knife, and a few other things. He was wearing the pants he stole and had used the scissors to cut off the tags. Grand total? $61.91.

Most corporates policy is to not confront shoplifters and call authorities and let law enforcement deal with it.

When arrested, James John Perez was identified as being from Los Angeles, California. So I typed into Google "How much can you steal in California without going to jail?" and got this reply:

Unfortunately this isn't California. This is Florida. Stealing is still against the law here.

We know that people have been moving to the Sunshine State now more than ever and 3 Florida cities are among the top 10 in the U.S. to move to in 2022.

There's plenty of reasons people want to move here. For me, it was because after growing up in the Midwest and seeing one too many winter's, I never wanted to see snow and ice again. But then add in the fact that Florida has top-rated beaches, no state income tax, theme parks and year-round outdoor activities and it makes sense why people want to trade in the cold for an endless summer.

MoveBuddha put together a list based on real estate trends of the cities where the most people are moving and the three Florida cities that rank the highest are Ocala, Sarasota and Avon Park.

The report says of Ocala: "Close to Orlando, Gainesville, and “the Villages,” a fast-growing planned retirement city, Ocala’s near cultural and employment hubs without being in the heat of the action itself". Ocala is seeing 524 inbound moves for every 100 outbound.

Avon Park is the most affordable in the top 10 however with a median home price of $200,573, compared to Sarasota's $500,000.

Interesting to see 3 Florida cities on the list when the top 5 most popular states they're seeing people move to so far in 2022 are Hawaii, Alaska, Montana, South Carolina and Maine with New Jersey, California and Illinois losing the most residents.