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The former UK jewelry store manager was sentenced to 28 months in prison after posting a selfie wearing stolen items and sending a selfie to a colleague, Humberside police said in a statement.
Lucy Roberts, 39, frequently took her jewelry home in the year she worked in a high-end store, telling her suspicious colleagues that she “worked from home and sorted the stock for the workshop.” Police statements do not name the store.
The statement said that only when Roberts left and went on vacation it was her colleagues realised where the jewels had gone. She began sending selfies of her former colleagues from the cruise, decorated with items taken from the store.
“I thought that in the world, I dripped diamonds and fooled everyone,” Detective Sergeant said. Christa Wilkinson said in a police news release.
Police said after searching her home “are scattered with thousands of pounds of jewelry scattered across boxes and cupboards under the bed,” the statement said.
Roberts totaled over $170,000 in diamonds, gold and silver, “made-to-order jewelry” and cash from his employer, Wilkinson said.
CNN was unable to determine whether Roberts had a legal representative.
Police said Roberts initially denied that she had stole the inventory from her employer, claiming that she borrowed some of the jewelry from her colleagues, and that they planted other items in her bags, but she later alleged that she was stolen by an employee and received 28 months in prison.
Police say Roberts was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport. They took her into custody after feeling that she “wears a considerable amount of stolen jewelry” and that she “wears a considerable amount of stolen jewelry,” according to the statement.
Body camera footage from the arrest shows Roberts removing more gems “as she was escorted at Heathrow Airport and was trying to get rid of it.”
According to a news release, the store where Roberts previously worked was “pleasant to finally close the issue in a few years.”
