Nicole Bass, a former WWE pro wrestler and regular on the Howard Stern show, was arrested Wednesday for lifting something other than weights.
Officials say Bass, 50, was caught leaving a local Stop and Shop grocery store in Queens, N.Y. at around 8 p.m. on Wednesday with a cart and shopping bag full of $1,400 worth of groceries and beauty products, the New York Post reported.
A store security guard busted the 6-foot-2, 220-pound female wrestler with 152 food items and 17 beauty products, the New York Daily News reported. She was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors: petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Bass was released after her arraignment in Queens Criminal Court, and prosecutors agreed to dismiss her charges if she stays out of trouble for six months.
Bass had a successful career in bodybuilding and professional wrestling with the WWE in the late '80s-'90s and was known for her famous move, the "bear hug," according to the Daily Mail. In an April appearance on the Howard Stern show, where she was an unofficial member of the show's segment "Wack Pack," Bass admitted to Stern that she was having money trouble.
The Daily News spoke to one of Bass' neighbors about the incident. She confirmed that Bass had fallen on hard times.
"I know she's a little down on her luck right now," the neighbor said. "It's just not like her, it's not. It's really too bad."
