FBI supervisor wakes to find handgun, Rolex swiped by ‘exotic dancer’
An FBI counterterrorism supervisor had his gun and pricey watch stolen by an “exotic dancer,” after a boozy night at a North Carolina hotel, according to a new report.
FBI unit chief Robert Manson met a woman at the Westin Hotel in Charlotte the night of July 9 and awoke the next day to find she’d swiped his Glock .40-caliber handgun, Rolex and about $60 in cash, police said.
“Investigators determined that the victim, Robert Manson, met a woman in the hotel bar the prior night and took her back to his hotel room,” Robert Tufano, a spokesperson for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, said Thursday, adding that no arrests had been made in the case.
The embarrassing episode, first reported by the New York Times, is the subject of an internal investigation, according to FBI spokesperson Michael P. Kortan, who declined to give the paper any additional comment.
Manson and other senior agents had been in town for training, a law enforcement official told the Times. They told police they’d been drinking with women they described as exotic dancers, according to a person briefed on the investigation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Manson is a unit chief overseeing all terrorism investigations in the Midwest and Carolinas but “was not acting in a law enforcement capacity at the time of the incident,” Tufano said.
A police report obtained by the Times and filed by another agent, Kevin Thurman, identified the watch as a $6,000 Rolex Explorer, and said the theft occurred sometime between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Men in New York have also had their valuables swiped by crafty vixens after they conk out. Last month, a woman stole a $37,000 watch from a man she’d just met at a swanky eatery.
Over the summer, two women stole $80,000 worth of timepieces from several saps who invited them back to their luxury hotel rooms in separate Midtown incidents.
In a similar case, two women preyed on an elderly Upper East Side man, stealing his watch and $3,000 in cash after meeting him at a cigar bar.
Also in August, a Saudi diplomat was robbed of a $30,000 Gerald Genta-designed watch, a $12,000 Rolex and $2,500 in cash after hooking up with a woman he met at celebrity hot spot 1Oak.