BELIEVE IT OR NOT, POLICE SAY ANTHONY CIFUENTES DREW COMPLAINTS AT AN OCALA DOLLAR TREE IN A SUIT AND BLUE FACE PAINT… ONLY TO BE ARRESTED ON AN OUTSTANDING FRAUD WARRANT.
On February 21, 2014, shoppers at a Dollar Tree store in Ocala, Florida, called the police.
The retail establishment was located on East Silver Springs Boulevard.
Customers contacted law enforcement to report a man who was making them uncomfortable inside the store.
The man had entered the premises dressed in a full business suit.
He was also wearing a bicycle helmet.
Blue paint was smeared across his entire face.
Police officers were dispatched to the Dollar Tree following the suspicious-person complaint.
Upon arriving in the area, officers located the man nearby.
Police identified the individual as 37-year-old Anthony Cifuentes.
Cifuentes was riding a bicycle when officers encountered him.
Yet nobody has ever explained the business suit.
Nobody has ever explained the bicycle helmet.
Nobody has ever explained the paint.
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Nothing about the unusual attire was ever clarified by the responding police department.
Cifuentes himself never offered any explanation for the getup or the paint smeared across his face.
But what officers discovered upon checking his record was far more mundane.
They found an active warrant waiting for his arrest.
The outstanding warrant had been issued out of Alachua County.
The underlying offense on the warrant was writing fraudulent checks.
Whatever the getup was about, what actually resulted in his arrest was that routine bad-check warrant.
Officers arrested Cifuentes on the spot.
Then they transported and booked him into the Marion County Jail.
He was booked into the county detention facility while still wearing the blue face paint.
That is exactly how his Marion County Jail booking photo shows him.
The resulting mugshot captured his entire face covered in the paint.
No further public reporting on how the Alachua County fraud case was resolved has surfaced since.
The charges are allegations and have not been proven in court.
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