A 32-year-old transient pleaded guilty Thursday, Dec. 8 to a carjacking attempt with three young children inside a vehicle in an Anaheim Home Depot parking lot.
Colin James Sheehan pleaded guilty to one felony count of attempted carjacking and three misdemeanor counts of child abuse and endangerment. As part of the plea deal, the child abuse counts were reduced from felonies to misdemeanors.
He was immediately sentenced to a year in jail, or time already served awaiting trial,
Sheehan was also placed on two years probation.
Sheehan, a convicted burglar, attempted to steal a family’s vehicle just before 5:15 p.m. Nov. 30 of last year at the Home Depot store at 1095 Pullman St., said Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer.
While the children’s mother was attempting to put a just-purchased Christmas tree on top of the vehicle, Sheehan attempted to steal it with her son and two daughters — all younger than 10 — inside, Carringer said.
With help from bystanders, Sheehan was stopped and police arrested him.
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