Two hotel workers were charged with a felony after police said they stole an iPad Mini from a guest and sold it on Craigslist.
On January 24, a woman who stayed at the Omni Hotel in Indianapolis said her iPad went missing from her room, the Indy Channel reports.
A woman happened to find the ad for the iPad on Craigslist and thought it was suspicious because the seller was wearing an Omni Hotel uniform in a picture in the ad. The woman contacted the hotel and the police were called immediately.
Myron Jackson, 25, and Talia Keys, 24 were charged with felony theft for stealing the Apple device.
According to police, Keys was the maid who cleaned the woman's room, however she said her coworker came into the room while she was cleaning her and distracted her. She believes her coworker must have stolen the iPad while she was talking to her, but she didn't realize it at the time.
Jackson admitted to posting the ad on Craigslist. The ad read: "I have a black iPad mini for sale for 300 or best offer Call (phone number) Myron need gone today need to pay a bill."
The woman who responded to the ad met up with Jackson and Keys at a restaurant near the hotel. The iPad was sold.
When Jackson came to the police for interrogation, he said he quit his job at the Omni Hotel. It was not clear if Keys was continuing to work there.
She admitted to driving her coworker to the restaurant where the iPad was sold but she thought she was taking him to the restaurant so he could get something to eat. She claimed she didn't know he was selling the stolen iPad at the time.
Jackson had told the buyer than his mother got the iPad as a gift from his stepfather. However the buyer wasn't buying it. She turned the iPad over to the police and the officers found that it was the device that was taken from the hotel room.
Keys and Jackson are set to appear in court in the next few weeks. This isn't the first criminal charge for either hotel worker. Jackson was convicted for a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge in 2007 and Keys was arrested in 2010 for domestic battery charges.
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