MEATPACKING DISTRICT — A grifter charmed two men she met partying in the Meatpacking District into taking her back to a hotel, then took off with their $50,000 watches while they slept, police said.
Police are on the hunt for a woman with long dark hair and a tattoo on her hand, about 5-foot-8, who they believe robbed two men on two separate incidents over the summer.
She met her first target at 4 a.m. in the Meatpacking District on Aug. 21, police said.
He took her to the trendy ACE Hotel at 20 W. 29th St., police said.
When the 35-year-old man fell asleep, the woman managed to take a $55,000 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch off of his wrist and slip out of the room, police said.
The second victim picked up the grifter outside posh Meatpacking District restaurant Catch at 21 9th Ave. about 1 a.m. on Aug. 25 and took her back to the Z Hotel at 42-45 11th St. in Long Island City, Queens, police said.
When he fell asleep, the woman got his $50,000 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch off of his wrist and took off, police said.
The incidents occurred in what was deemed "summer grifter season," amid a wave of Rolex thefts by seductresses bent on snagging pricey time-pieces from snoozing rich men.
A year prior, a man took two teens home to his Greenwich Village condo and ended up having to chase them down when they took off with his $26,000 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch.
The NYPD asks that anyone with information about this incident or the suspect pictured call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
