HIALEAH, Fla. – Police officers are searching for the robber who recently pretended to gift a woman in Hialeah a necklace to steal the one she already had on.
It was a gold chain, a precious family heirloom that her late parents had brought to South Florida from Cuba. The robbery was on Wednesday afternoon.
Lyliam Cruz told police officers that she was cleaning outside of her home when a driver pulled up, a woman got out of the car and approached her.
The woman distracted her with a sad story about her mother being sick and told her that she wanted to gift her some jewelry as an offering.
Cruz declined the gift, but the woman was quick and placed some chains around her neck before taking them off and quickly fleeing.
Surveillance video shows the robber on West 35th Street. Cruz isn’t the only victim. Detectives were investigating similar reports.
In Westchester, another senior was also targeted by a woman wearing the same clothing and approaching her with the same motive, a sad story and a necklace.
That man refused to wear it, and the woman then asked him for money for gas. That man’s daughter told Local 10 News that luckily, the woman seemed to have left empty handed.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.