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Classic: Man Buys $35,000 Engagement Ring, Only To Have It Stolen By Woman He Met While Partying
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Jen Chung
Published May 10, 2016
Modified May 10, 2016
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Fellas, can I ask you a question? If you're shelling out $35,000 for an engagement ring, what are you doing inviting a woman you just met up to a hotel room? This is what some schmuck did and now his ring is, obviously, missing.
The police are looking for a female suspect who apparently pulled this grift two months ago. According to the NYPD, the incident occurred on March 17th, when the suspect "removed a diamond engagement ring from the 43 year-old male victim's room inside the Standard Hotel, located at 848 Washington Street."
The Post has more details, noting that the ring is worth $35,000 and that the victim "met the female thief while he was out partying with friends and invited her back to his room... When he woke up, the woman had left and the ring — which he had been keeping in the room — was gone."
The suspect is described as having black hair and is about 5'2" and 120 pounds. She also has a very nice smile, at least based on the NYPD surveillance image and video.
The video appears to show the suspect and victim checking into the Standard:
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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