NY Daily News
October 26, 2014
A 25-year-old woman snatched an Australian tourist’s $25,000 Rolex and hid it in her vagina after an early morning hookup in a Manhattan hotel room, officials said.
Brenton Price was getting a massage from Shacarye Tims in his room at the Holiday Inn in Chelsea about 5:30 a.m. Oct. 19, after meeting her at a bar, police said.
“I just innocently picked up a girl at a bar and got robbed,” Price said when reached in California.
“I was a tourist,” he told the Daily News. “I met someone and got robbed. I helped catch the criminal.”
A source said Tims also had priors in other states, including a prostitution arrest in Las Vegas.
Price put his Yacht-Master II Rolex on the nightstand at the 125 W. 26th St. hotel after Tims complained it was scratching her, police sources said.
When he noticed the Rolex was missing about 10 minutes later, Tims suggested that it might have fallen behind the nightstand, cops said.
As Price searched, Tims tried to hightail it out of the hotel but the Aussie caught up with her in the lobby.