MIAMI — A Miami hotel housekeeper was arrested Monday, months after she stole a hotel guest’s wedding ring and then pawned it, authorities said.
According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the theft was reported Feb. 27 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, located at 3300 SW 27th Ave.
Police said the victim had checked into the five-star hotel on the night of Feb. 25. Later that evening, she removed all of her jewelry and placed it in a travel jewelry box, which she hid in a cosmetic bag in the bathroom of her room, authorities said.
According to the report, the victim left the hotel the next morning to go snorkeling and left her jewelry in the cosmetic bag.
Police said the victim returned to her room later that day and saw that housekeeping had cleaned her room and her belongings in the bathroom had been moved.
As she was getting ready to go to dinner, she then discovered that her wedding ring was missing, authorities said.
According to the report, the victim filed a police report the next day after being unable to find her ring.
Police said the housekeeper assigned to the room, Odessa Natasha Wray, 46, was questioned by the hotel manager that same day and he asked her whether she had seen any jewelry in the room.
“Not in the bathroom,” Wray responded, according to the report.
The manager told police he had not mentioned the bathroom when asking Wray whether she had seen any jewelry.
According to the report, during the investigation, detectives discovered that Wray had pawned a women’s ring at P&S Jewelry, located at 7900 NW 27th Ave., on March 7 for $280. The 18kt white and yellow gold diamond ring is worth about $8,000, police said.
According to the report, detectives contacted the pawn shop to place a hold on the ring.
Police said they located Wray Monday and arrested her on charges of grand theft, dealing in stolen property and providing false verification to a pawnbroker.
According to the report, Wray confessed to stealing the ring and pawning it.
As of Tuesday morning, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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