52-year-old Carola Mitchell was using her psychic services as a ploy to rob people of their fortunes, including one woman who was held at gunpoint.
Judith Ramirez could never have predicted what would happen on May 16.
“I hear somebody knock at the door, so I open the door,” Ramirez said.
Mitchell was at the door, asking Ramirez and her mother-in-law where to buy Mexican food and if she could come inside for a drink of water before offering up her psychic services.
“She said something about that she could read her hand. I said ‘no I’m not interested in that.’ Then she started reading my forehead. I was just like ‘okay.’ I just ignored her,” Ramirez said.
That’s when Ramirez said she went in her room with her baby, leaving Mitchell with her mother-in-law, who opted for a psychic reading.
Moments later, deputies said Mitchell pulled out a gun, held it to the mother-in-law’s back and demanded money.
“She told her that if she doesn’t give [her] the money, she was going to hurt us, my baby and I. And then she’s like, ‘okay,’ so she gave her the money,” Ramirez said.
A neighbor’s surveillance camera captured Mitchell in her white Nissan Rogue leaving the mobile home park near 3rd Avenue SE and 21st Street SE in Ruskin. Deputies eventually tracked her down.
