Seal Beach, California’s Inflight Surf and Sail owners got pepper sprayed on Tuesday, August 29, 2011 by a woman who returned to the store to retrieve her purse after reportedly stealing clothes from the shop, according to a story in the OC Register.
When Inflight owner Missy Scarbrough told the woman she could get her purse back when the police arrived, supect Arlene Bremner pulled out a can of pepper spray.
Missy Scarbrough said she was sprayed first, at which point her daughter ran to the second floor of the store to get Scott Scarbrough, who fought to subdue Bremner. She said the contents of the purse, including a knife, fell out as Bremner tried to get to a second can of spray.. . . “They were wrestling and everything was falling off the walls,” Scarbrough said. “My husband is pretty tall, but she was picking him up and putting up a good fight. She was very small and petite but superhuman yesterday.”
Bremner is now being charted on multiple felony counts of burglary, plus “using tear gas weapons while committing a crime.” We’re just glad the Scarbroughs are all okay. Nice work, Scott.
[Link: OC Register via LAist]
