Santa Fe’s Walmart was Santa fun for 53 year-old Rodolpho Florencio Mendiola on Christmas Eve as the funny little adventurer hid inside a clothing rack at closing time and then proceeded to dash down the aisles, and fill up his shopping carts with $20,000 in merry merch, drink from bottles of alcoholic cheer, eat delicious packaged treats, damage several tablets on display, and just party down solo like a plucky 8 year-old boy accidentally left home alone in a suburban Chicago mansion after his insufferable asshole family flew to Paris without him, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Run Run Rodolpho’s festive fun was foiled around 3:45 PM on Wednesday when a store manager stopped by the shuttered megastore to pick up some personal items from the office and noticed the Christmas-crazed kid in a homeless adult’s body wandering around the sporting goods section where he had armed himself with a large hunting knife. Police quickly responded and ascertained that Mendiola had “staged” three carts filled with $20,000 worth of shit he had intended to drag to his campsite nearby, the price tag total putting the holiday hijinks well within felony territory.
Mendiola told cops “he knew he was going to prison for this incident,” according to a Santa Fe Police Department release. It’s not Mendiola first rodeo either as the man was previously caught shoplifting from the same Walmart at least twice within the last few years and also faces counts of criminal trespass and larceny for shoplifting incident at a Santa Fe Dollar Tree store in October, per SFPD.