Date drugs and robs man, 73, of $72K in property, police say

A late-night date sipping red wine with a 25-year-old woman proved costly for a 73-year-old man from Lighthouse Point.

Last May, Witney Corretta Tolbert shared wine from a bottle she brought to the man’s home. He then passed out for 11 hours, Lighthouse Point police said.

“This young woman is charged with allegedly trying to poison an elderly gentleman, stealing almost $100,000 in property from him,” Broward County Court Judge Michael Davis said Thursday during Tolbert’s bond court hearing.

The man, who police are not identifying and said did not wish to comment, discovered Tolbert was gone, along with property — including a $31,000 Rolex watch, other jewelry, luggage and electronics — worth about $72,000. Also missing: his wine glass. The encounter between Tolbert and the man began at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday last May; by midnight, he was asleep.

Upon waking, the man told a detective, he didn’t feel like himself, his speech was slurred and he was nauseated, disoriented and extremely drowsy.

The man and Tolbert don’t have an intimate, ongoing personal relationship, the investigation found.

“They had met at a restaurant in Miami and went out a couple of times before this incident,” Detective Sgt. David Dyess said.

Blood was taken from the man about an hour after he woke up, and a test detected the drug alprazolam, which he has never taken. No other foreign substance was found in the blood sample, police said.

A crime lab analyzed a powdery substance found on the floor near where the couple had been sitting

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