FULLERTON, Calif.—A 32-year-old transient pleaded guilty Dec. 8 and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail, or time already served awaiting trial, for attempting to carjack a vehicle with three young children inside 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.
Sheehan was also placed on two years of formal 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 Street, said Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer….