‘Watch’ out, rich guys!
Cops: She drugged men, took fortune in timepieces
A greedy grifter is accused of meeting men in nightclubs, drugging them and swiping more than $100,000 worth of their jewelry, authorities said Thursday.
Ocsetta Tinsley, has allegedly victimized three men dating back to last year, police said.
Tinsley, 22, would dissolve a drug in her mouth using a swig of booze and transfer her tainted saliva into the victims' mouths, presumably during a kiss, according to court papers and a police source.
She was busted in front of the Dream Hotel on W. 16th St. Chelsea on Aug. 11, by a cop who recognized her from a wanted picture.
Tinsley gave police an address in Pembroke Pines, Fla., though she appears to be from Indianapolis, Ind., authorities said.
On June 16, she accompanied a 29-year-old man to his room at the Dream Hotel, where she drugged him and made off with his $26,000 Royal Oak Chronograph Audemars Piguet watch after he passed out, authorities said.
Six days earlier, a 52-year-old Long Island man and Tinsley were at a nightclub on E. 61st St. when she allegedly drugged him. He, too passed out and when he woke up was missing his $20,000 Rolex and $300 in cash.
Last year, on Aug. 8, a 44-year-old fell for her act and invited her back to his Inwood apartment, where she stole five pieces of jewelry worth $79,500, authorities said.
Tinsley is charged with grand larceny.
She being held at Rikers Island on $75,000 bail, and may be responsible for three similar incidents in Brooklyn and Queens — and she has pending robbery cases in Dallas and Los Angeles, prosecutors said.
Her lawyer had no comment.