Selfies of woman “dripping in diamonds” on cruise led to her arrest for jewelry theft, police say

A woman in the United Kingdom was sentenced to 28 months in prison for jewelry theft, after selfies who showed her “dripping with diamonds” during a cruise that made a criminal investigation, police announced.

Lucy Roberts, 39, was found guilty of having stolen more than £ 124,000 in jewelry and money in a luxury store that she has previously succeeded, According to the Hamberside police In the northeast of England, where the program took place. Transport included diamonds, gold and silver parts, with the total value of stolen items equivalent to around $ 170,000.

Police said Roberts had acquired expensive accessories during her mandate to the jewelry store, while they would bring items home with her and told suspect colleagues that she “trait the stock” for the store of her residence.

Roberts left his job at the store after a year as director, police said. Then, from a cruise ship, she sent selfies to her former colleagues who imagined her wearing luxury jewelry, which the staff did not believe that she had bought.

“Without care in the world, dripping with diamonds, thinking that she had cheated on everyone, Roberts posed arrogantly on social networks and sent photos boasting to her ex-colleagues at the right time she had on vacation, without thinking that they would realize what she had done,” said the SGT. Krista Wilkinson, a detective from the Hamberside police, in a statement.

A police investigation revealed that Roberts had falsified the inventory of actions and had made fraudulent yields in the store, which caused a search of his house where stolen jewelry was found. More than 260 articles have been discovered “scattered in boxes under the bed and in the cupboards,” said the Humberside police.

Police arrested Roberts at Heathrow airport in London when she came back from the cruise. According to the police, she wore stolen jewelry and others were found in her suitcase. They said that pictures of cameras carried on the body showed that Roberts at the airport trying to remove and have their jewelry.

Roberts denied flight allegations, police said.