BSO: Man Steals Beauty Secrets, Supplies
Detectives Believe Man Posed As Doctor, Conned Way Inside
POSTED: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
UPDATED: 3:23 pm EDT September 6,
2006
DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Broward Sheriff's Office detectives said they believe a man caught on surveillance video walking away with millions of dollars worth of beauty enhancement secrets and products could be using the items to conduct fraudulent activities.
According to the BSO, a man who had conned his way into a beauty seminar at the Hilton Gardens Inn on Aug. 24 stole a training manual, syringes and several bottles of phosphytidyl choline.
Detectives said the man got into the locked conference room by telling a hotel employee that he had forgotten something inside, where a seminar on "Advanced Restylane, Advance Botox" for medical nurses and doctors was taking place.
Barbara Jones, who was conducting the seminar, told detectives that the manual contained beauty-enhancement secrets collected through years of research and that all the students at the seminar signed an agreement of confidentiality not to divulge the information for personal gain.
A similar incident occurred April 26 for the same seminar. Detectives said a man told hotel employees he was a doctor from West Palm Beach who was interested in learning about the seminar, but used the opportunity to steal a copy of the manual.
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