“They’re going up to the floors where housekeeping is, and while the housekeepers are inside the rooms cleaning, the suspects are going in and they’re rummaging through personal belongings left behind,”
“…One suspect allegedly distracted the maid … while it is alleged that the other suspect may have been looking around the room for items of value,”
High-security airport badges and a laptop computer were among items reported missing in one of three incidents at St. Lucie West hotels thought to be the work of people who distract cleaning staff to try to steal things, according to a Port St. Lucie police spokesman Wednesday and reports.
In a Feb. 4 case at a SpringHill Suites on Northwest Courtyard Circle near Interstate 95, a man said he noticed several things missing from his room after he returned from having breakfast. The 48-year-old man said “several FAA and FCC high-security clearance airport ID badges” were stolen, along with a computer, camera, binoculars, curling iron, cash and other items.
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