MIAMI – A Las Vegas woman is facing three felony charges in South Florida after Miami police said she enticed a man at a Brickell rooftop bar, likely drugged him, then stole his Rolex in April in what they call another instance of a “bad date case.”
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Authorities said they caught suspected seductress Rachel Marie Warner, 23, on Wednesday as she left another establishment with a 61-year-old potential victim.
They said they found suspected incapacitating drugs in her purse.
According to the Miami Police Department, on April 7, a woman later identified as Warner had struck up a conversation with a man in the valet area of the EAST Miami hotel at 788 Brickell Plaza.
Police said the two spent time together at its rooftop bar, called Sugar, had drinks together and then went back to his hotel room just before 11:30 p.m.
The victim later told police that he remembered that Warner had been “briefly accompanied by an unknown male with a dog” while at Sugar, the report states.
Once inside, an arrest report states that Warner made a drink for the man and he didn’t remember anything that happened after imbibing.
Police said he woke up alone to find that Warner was missing ― and so was his $18,000 Rolex. His cellphone was also “locked and inaccessible.”
Surveillance footage showed Warner leaving the room alone just before 3:30 a.m., police said.
A detective wrote that she was “hurriedly exiting the unit, using the elevator, and leaving the hotel in a rapid manner consistent with evading detection.”
He wrote that “while conducting an undercover operation at a location known for similar incidents,” he spotted a woman “matching the description from this case,” who would turn out to be Warner.
Undercover detectives surveilled her as she conversed with a 61-year-old man and uniformed officers detained her after she left with him.
Officers who searched her purse found two eyedroppers with suspected ketamine, police said.
The detective wrote that he noticed “a distinctive large tattoo” on Warner’s back, which “matched a unique tattoo visible in the surveillance footage from the hotel, further corroborating her identity as the offender.”
“Had detectives not intervened during the undercover operation, Ms. Warner would have likely succeeded in perpetrating the same scheme against another unsuspecting victim, potentially leaving him drugged, robbed, or in grave danger,” he wrote.
Police arrested Warner on charges of burglary with assault or battery, third-degree grand theft and possession of a controlled substance.
She was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set” in online jail records on Thursday.
Police urged “anyone with information about similar incidents to come forward” by calling MPD’s Burglary Unit at 305-603-6030 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.