17 year old caught stealing 700 dollars worth of clothes from Lake City Mall

17 year old Samira Halabi walked into JC Penny’s at approximately 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon and asked the store merchant if she could have a bag, and claimed to need it to throw out the trash in her car. She walked around the store more and began to conceal items in the bag. She then entered Belk and did the same thing, only this time she went to exit Belk and the alarm went off, store merchant, Justin Ambrose, and Sheila hunt approached Samira and told her to come to their office where they revealed over 700 dollars worth of merchandise, the arresting officer tells us this wont end good for 17 year old Samira.