MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Miami Beach police arrested an employee at the famed Fontainebleau hotel on Monday after they said he swiped a Miami Hurricanes championship ring from its lobby the previous night.
An arrest report states that the employee, identified as Jean Ciceon Dor, 54, of Miami Gardens, was seen on surveillance video taking the “2002 University of Miami championship ring” ― valued at $1,000 ― that belonged to a woman’s late husband, not identified in the report.
The Hurricanes’ last national football championship came during the 2002 Rose Bowl, as part of the team’s undefeated 2001 season. UM would fall short of securing another championship on Monday night against the Indiana Hoosiers.
According to the report, the victim said she had “placed her belongings down to take a picture” after leaving a party at the LIV Nightclub, located on the Fontainebleau property, at around 8:30 p.m. Sunday and “upon retrieving her items, she noticed the ring was missing.”
Police said CCTV footage showed that Dor “picked up the ring, placed it into his pocket, exited the Fontainebleau exterior area, removed the ring from his pocket to look at it and then reentered the property on the other side with the ring still in his possession."
The report states that Dor told investigators that “he picked up the ring with the intention of turning it into lost and found security,” but got sidetracked after a guest asked him to clean the bathroom.
Dor, police said, claimed he placed the ring on the bathroom counter and “forgot” to pick it back up “due to forgetting and thinking it had no value.”
According to the report, he told officers that “he would never steal anything and stated that if he had possession of the ring, he would return it to the victim or would have done so prior to police involvement.”
The report states that Fontainebleau management suspended Dor and trespassed him from the property.
Police arrested him on felony counts of theft of personal property by a hotel employee and third-degree grand theft.
As of Tuesday, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.
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