DORAL, Fla. — A woman from the Bronx, New York is facing a felony charge in South Florida after police said she stole more than $200,000 in jewelry from a man she was dating after being kicked out of a friend’s house they were staying at in Doral.
Doral police took Mikaila Lopez, 20, into custody on a first-degree grand theft charge just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, shortly after they said the crime took place.
Investigators said Lopez and the man had been dating for two months and were staying at a home on Northwest 68th Terrace in The Mansions at Doral, a high-end gated community.
According to an arrest report, at some point, the man told Lopez to leave multiple times and she refused, leading him to threaten a call to police.
After that, police said Lopez went upstairs to the man’s room and took a necklace, a tennis bracelet, a white gold pendant and a Richard Mille watch worth about $261,000 total, then left and jumped a fence.
Doral police said they caught Lopez nearby and an officer saw “the necklace and pendant hanging from her purse.”
According to the report, the man found the $133,000 watch about 50 feet outside of the home, but the $24,000 tennis bracelet was nowhere to be found.
Records show Lopez was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $15,000 bond as of Thursday afternoon.
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