A Pompano Beach woman is behind the bar in connection with a diamond bracelet totaling $30,000 after officers reported that she woke up after a Rolex watch theft and the gem was missing after a night out in Miami Beach.
The incident occurred on April 21st at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach Police said.
The victim returned to the hotel around 4:30am in the evening to inform officers that he had met an unknown woman in the lobby. They began to speak and she took him to his room.
Upon entering, the woman was identified as Angelina Chenelle Estee, 25, — offering him a drink, according to an arrest affidavit. The man said he took off his Rolex date just and his diamond bracelet and put it in his jacket pocket. After consuming a drink, he died.
He woke up around 8am to find Esti gone. It’s worth $20,000 and $10,000, along with the watch and bracelet.
Police reviewed the security footage and found fingerprints linking Esti to a hotel room.
The victim later confirmed her identity in the photo lineup.
A warrant was issued and Estee was arrested Monday by Doral police in another grand theft case, including another stolen Rolex watch. She is also a suspect in a similar ongoing investigation by Miami Police Department.
Esti’s arrest resembles a broader pattern of so-called “bad date” fraud. This is a case in which women are said to target men wearing expensive gems, gain trust, and then steal drugs in a private environment.
Earlier this month, another Las Vegas woman, 23-year-old Rachel Marie Warner, was arrested in a nearly identical lawsuit.
On April 8th, a man met Warner outside the East Hotel in Brickell and invited her to join in for a drink at the rooftop bar sugar. They later returned to his hotel unit, where Warner reportedly made him a drink. After consuming it, he woke up black and a $18,000 Rolex went missing, and his phone tampered with.
Security footage shows Warner left the hotel at about 3:30am and tracked her down a few weeks later, finding two bottles of suspicious white liquid in her wallet.
Warner was attacked by multiple charges including robbery, massive theft and possession of a controlled substance.
Esti is being charged with the second grand larceny. Jail records show he remains at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $7,500 bond Tuesday afternoon.
