A Chesterfield County, Virginia shoplifter’s plan to steal $1,400 worth of shit from a Walmart store and make good on his escape was met with certain complications on Sunday, ones that law enforcement officials say could have been foreseen given that there were roughly 50 police officers and sheriff’s deputies present at the store for a children’s charity event at the time, WTVR reports.

“We had 30-40 marked patrol cars in the parking lot. When we found his vehicle, it was facing where our cars were parked, so he would have had to see them. It seems it just didn’t matter to him,” Lt James Lamb of the Chesterfield County Police told the station of 32 year-old criminal mastermind Hector Velazquez Maldonado’s planning abilities. Lamb and the others were inside the store for the local patrolman’s association’s “Shop with a Cop” day, in which officers and deputies walk the aisles with underprivileged children and use association funds to purchase Christmas toys they pick out.
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“A member of the staff at Walmart came up to us and informed us they had a shoplifting in progress,” Lamb said of the fucking idiot. “Between the sheriff’s department and police officers we had about 50 uniform personnel at the store. As we approached from different directions, he tried to escape out the back of the store where he was apprehended. I think he was stunned.”

Maldonado was already wanted on additional warrants for larceny and failure to appear.