Crime & Safety

Woman Arrested For Stealing Boxer's Bag At Jay-Z's Club: NYPD

One of five women who stole a bag filled with $150,000 of cash and jewelry from a nightclub was arrested, police said.

FLATIRON DISTRICT, NY — One of the five women who snatched a boxer's bag stuffed with $155,000 worth of cash and jewelry from Jay-Z's nightclub in Manhattan was arrested on Monday, police said.

Sarah Morin, of Enfield, Conn., was arrested on Monday and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, police said.

Morin, 40, was one of five women who walked out of the 40/40 Club on Sunday morning with a professional boxer's bag filled with cash and jewelry, police said.

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The boxer, Jermall Charlo, was partying with friends at the 40/40 Club in Flatiron that's co-owned by Jay-Z, the New York Daily News reported. Police said a 27-year-old man was partying inside the club, located at 6 W. 25th St., Sunday at about 3 a.m. when he began arguing and then physically fighting with someone there.

While Charlo was reportedly arguing with another person at the club, five women grabbed his unattended bag filled with cash and jewelry and left with it. The bag had about $40,000 in cash and another $115,000 worth of jewelry, according to the NYPD.

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Morin is the only woman to be arrested so far, police said. Patch was not immediately able to identify or locate a defense attorney for her on Tuesday morning.

Image credit: Courtesy of the NYPD

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