Crime & Safety

Woman Drugged, Robbed Man She Picked Up At Chelsea Hotel: NYPD

The con artist targeted partying men and may have transferred the drug through a kiss, authorities said.

CHELSEA, NY — Police arrested a con artist who wooed men she met while partying, drugged them and stole more than $100,000 worth of jewelry, authorities said Thursday.

Hustler Ocsetta Tinsley, 22, was arrested near the Dream Hotel at 355 West 16th Street on Aug. 11 for allegedly swindling three men in a scheme where she drugged her marks by transferring the substance through her saliva, likely through a kiss, according to court documents.

The Dream Hotel is no stranger to women preying on men. Last August, a woman drugged a man at the Chelsea inn after she was invited to his room. She fled with his watch.

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Tinsley's most recent caper was at the hotel, where a 29-year-old man invited her to his room on June 16. There, she drugged him and grabbed his $26,000 Royal Oak Chronograph Audemars Piguet watch after he passed out, police said.

The week before, Tinsley ensnared a 52-year-old man at a nightclub in the Upper East Side. She allegedly drugged the man and also made off with his pricey watch – a $20,000 Rolex.

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On Aug. 8, 2017 she managed to con a 44-year-old man who invited her to his Inwood apartment after the pair met in a nightclub. She allegedly stole five pieces of jewelry, totaling $79,500 from the man's pad, authorities said.

Tinsley was charged with grand larceny and weapons possession because she had a gravity knife on her at the time of her arrest, police said.

Authorities believe Tinsley is from Indianapolis, Indiana and is being held at Rikers Island on $75,000 bail.

Tinsley may be responsible for three other incident in Brooklyn and Queens, and has ongoing robbery cases in Log Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas, prosecutors said.

Tinsley is due back in court on Sept. 16.


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