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Las Vegas tourist says his $35,000 Rolex was stolen by ‘prostitute’ who cops say is a serial watch thief – after claiming he took pity on her and agreed to let her ‘rest’ in his hotel room
- The unnamed man from California was staying at The Cosmopolitan hotel and casino in Las Vegas on June 21
- Two women, who the man said he ‘knew were probably prostitutes’, approached him at the casino
- He said the women told him they were tired, and he took pity on them and allowed him to go to his room to rest
- He returned to the room, and fell asleep: when he awoke at 8am, he said one of the women had left and his $35,000 Rolex was missing
- The woman who left was identified as Deonna McCray, 32, thanks to surveillance footage and a line-up
- McCray was previously accused of stealing a $20,000 Rolex and cash, plus a Bulova watch and $35,000 in cash
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A Las Vegas tourist has claimed he invited women he believed to be prostitutes to his hotel room to ‘rest’, and was shocked when he awoke to find his $35,000 Rolex missing.
A Los Angeles woman, Deonna McCray, 32, has now been arrested and charged with the theft – her third watch theft since the spring.
The unnamed man was staying at The Cosmopolitan hotel and was at their casino when he was approached by two women, one of whom police say was McCray.
‘He knew the females were probably prostitutes’, the man told the police, adding, according to their notes, that ‘he was not interested in anything of the sort.’
The man told the police, The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, that the women said they were tired and hungry, so he allowed them to go to his room while he remained downstairs in the casino.
When he went upstairs both women were still there, and he fell asleep, he said.
Awaking at 8am, he found that one of the women had left, his briefcase was overturned, and his Rolex was missing.
Deonna McCray, 32, from Los Angeles, has been arrested for her third watch theft in Las Vegas
The unnamed man was staying at The Cosmopolitan hotel, on the Las Vegas strip
The second woman told him she had nothing to do with the missing watch.
The man called police, who went through surveillance footage.
With the help of the victim and the other woman, they identified Deonna McCray, 32, from Los Angeles as the alleged thief.
McCray was known to Las Vegas police after a spate of watch thefts and cash robberies, beginning this spring.
She was previously arrested on suspicion of stealing a $20,000 Rolex and cash.
In a separate incident, she was accused of stealing a Bulova watch and $35,000 in cash.
In May she entered a no contest plea to theft, which resolved two cases, and she received a suspended jail sentence of six months in each.
She was ordered by the judge to stay out of trouble for a year and to stay away from the Las Vegas Strip.