POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A Florida man was arrested after trying to hide his legless, fugitive girlfriend in a storage container from authorities, investigators said.
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John Robert Carr Jr. tried to conceal Krystle Lee Anderson, who was wanted for failure to appear in Orange County in a 2015 case in which she was accused of trying to rob a Burger King with a BB gun,
[ according to The Lakeland Ledger ]
. Anderson was shot and lost her legs in the incident.
Deputies with Polk County Sheriff’s Office and federal marshals were tipped off that Anderson was with Carr at his residence,
. When they arrived, he told them she was not there; however, officers saw through a bedroom window that Carr had put the 4-foot-tall woman into a plastic storage bin,
.
Carr was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Additional charges are pending, according to the Ledger.
Anderson was taken into custody.