A Florida “predator” was given a slap on the wrist after pleading responsible to luring wealthy males to resorts, pepper-spraying them, and robbing them of their luxurious watches.
Esther Torres, 20, averted jail time and was sentenced to 5 years’ probation on Wednesday following two incidents the place she remoted the lads and sprayed them, robbing one in all an costly Hugo Boss watch, and one other of an opulent $22,000 Rolex watch in late March, Regulation & Crime reported.
The primary incident befell on the Breakwater Resort in Miami Seashore, with the 20-year-old thief pepper-spraying the sufferer, then taking his Hugo Boss watch off his wrist.
She additionally then robbed him of greater than $200 in money and Euros, and made off with a number of of his bank cards.
Throughout the second incident, Torres pepper-sprayed one other man on the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami, snatching a $22,000 Rolex Submariner from the sufferer.
The sufferer instructed police that the mace assault left him briefly blind.
Surveillance footage additionally captured Torres leaving each resorts after macing and stealing the watches, in response to Regulation & Crime.
“We have now a predator, and he or she’s preying on male victims,” the proprietor of the Sherbrooke Resort — positioned minutes away from the Breakwater Resort — Mitch Novick, instructed WSVN.
Novick stated he additionally handed over surveillance footage from his lodge to assist police ID the Torres.
Police obtained sizzling on Torres’ path in April when she arrived on the scene of one other individual’s visitors cease after the person driving had been arrested.
She was later recognized because the suspect of the 2 robberies by her driver’s license, which she supplied to police on the scene.
Torres was lastly dropped at justice in Could and was arrested by police throughout a visitors cease.
Cops confirmed her identification based mostly on a picture from a “must establish” flyer issued by legislation enforcement.
Police launched body-worn digicam footage of Torres’ arrest, which exhibits her wearing a strapless white prime and hair bonnet, being requested by police if she has any weapons on her, in response to Regulation & Crime.
“You don’t have any weapons on you, none of that stuff, proper?” an officer requested within the clip.
“No, no,” Torres replied.
Police stated Torres had a baby in her automobile when she was taken in. The kid within the automobile was picked up earlier than she was taken to jail.
She was initially charged with two counts of theft within the first diploma and was ordered to be detained with out bond, Regulation & Crime reported.
Torres was granted a recognizance bond in June and is now not within the jail system following her sentencing to probation.
