Two women accused of stealing more than 200,000 in jewelry from a man in Hallandale Beach, Broward County, on May 6, in complicity with a third woman, turned themselves in to the police.
Lexi Buffaloe (26 years old) and Antonietta Ceccarelli (28) surrendered to the authorities on Tuesday night, while the third accused, Juliana Cortés, 23, had already surrendered on Sunday and appeared in court this Monday.
According to the arrest warrant – released by the local press– On May 6, the victim had just won money at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and returned to his home in the Golden Isles neighborhood of Hallandale Beach after midnight.
When he arrived home, he realized that he did not have Diet Coke and went to a Walgreens located at 1300 E. Hallandale Beach Blvd. where, according to the police, he met “Layla”, “Nicki” and “Rose”.
The Police have said the trio struck up a conversation with a man in the checkout line, exchanged phone numbers and then called him to come to his house around 3 a.m.
The arrest warrant states that the three women took the opportunity to rob the man of cash, jewelry and a valuable watch, exposing “their breasts and sexuality to each other as a distraction.”
The watch was a James Cameron special edition Rolex valued at $25,000.
After the women left the home, the victim realized that his late wife’s gold ring valued at $100,000, a $68,000 gold chain, were missing; about $3,500 in cash and “several pieces of adult paraphernalia,” which the arrest warrant does not specify what it was.
However, it wasn’t too difficult to find the suspects.
The authorities said that They were able to identify the vehicle in which the women were traveling, a Range Rover, through a license plate reader installed in the Golden Isles security booth.
They also linked the phone number used by one of the women to contact the victim.
The trio of women now face several charges, including grand theft and fraud.
Cortés, charged with grand theft in the first degree and fraudulently obtaining property over 50,000, pleaded not guilty at her court appearance last Monday and was released on bond.
