A Florida woman, Esther Torres, avoided jail time and was sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty to robbing rich men of luxury watches by pepper-spraying them.
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Torres pepper-sprayed one victim at the Breakwater Hotel in Miami Beach, stealing his Hugo Boss watch, cash, Euros, and credit cards.
A second incident happened at the Fontainebleau Hotel where she snatched a $22,000 Rolex Submariner from a different victim.
Mitch Novick, the owner of the Sherbrooke Hotel, described Torres as a “predator” preying on male victims and provided surveillance footage to help identify her to the police.
Surveillance footage, as well as her driver’s license provided at a later traffic stop, helped identify Torres as the suspect.
She was arrested in May and later sentenced to probation.
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