PADUCAH, Ky. – According to police, a South Florida woman managed to land in a Kentucky jail twice on the same day for two car theft attempts.
The first try was unsuccessful, but given a second chance following her release from jail, Yamila Laborde, 59, managed to take off with someone’s car for a few minutes before cops stopped her, police said.
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It all happened in Paducah, a city along the Ohio River in the far western part of the Bluegrass State.
According to the Paducah Police Department, Laborde, with addresses in Fort Lauderdale and Hialeah, first tried to steal a truck from a Walmart parking lot just after 12:45 Sunday afternoon.
“A Paducah man told police he was loading groceries in the back of his 2016 Dodge pickup truck, which he had started, and his wife was sitting in the passenger seat,” police wrote in a Facebook post. “Laborde got into the driver’s seat of the truck and told the woman to get out, because the truck belonged to her.”
According to police, Laborde ran into a problem, however: she couldn’t put the truck in gear.
Police said they arrived at the scene and took her to the McCracken County jail on on a charge of attempted theft by unlawful taking.
But that wouldn’t be the last time she’d wind up there that day.
Police said about four hours later, she went to a library and took a man’s 2001 Toyota. An officer stopped the car within minutes.
After being captured for a second time, Laborde told the officer “she was tired of walking and saw the unattended vehicle, so she took it,” police said.
She was once again booked into the McCracken County jail, this time on a charge of theft by unlawful taking. She was being held on a $2,500 bond.