A woman is facing charges after police said she allegedly drugged multiple men she met at Miami bars before stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of luxury items.
Sarah Jean Tavano, 39, was arrested Sunday on charges including strongarm robbery, organized fraud, grand theft, and burglary of an occupied dwelling, records showed.
Miami-Dade Corrections
Miami-Dade Corrections
Sarah Jean Tavano
The charges stem from at least three alleged incidents dating back to October of 2025.
In one incident, a man said he met a woman at Blackbird and brought her back to his apartment on Southwest 7th Street, an arrest report said.
The man said he was heavily intoxicated and didn’t remember large portions of the night including inviting the woman to his apartment.
But surveillance footage showed her arriving and leaving his apartment with two suitcases about an hour later, the report said.
It turned out she had stolen multiple items worth around $26,426 including several Louis Vuitton handbags and wallets, bags from Alexander McQueen, Valentino, Versace, Gucci, Saint Laurent and various gold and diamond jewelry items, the report said.
But a fingerprint left behind at the apartment was later found to be Tavano’s, the report said.
In a second incident from December, Tavano allegedly met a man at El Patio Wynwood and went back to his hotel room on Brickell Bay Drive, the report said.
The man told investigators he blacked out and didn’t wake up for several hours, but when he did, the woman was gone along with his wallet, credit cards, debit cards, identifying documents, and iPhone, the report said.
He also discovered unauthorized transactions on his financial accounts totaling $14,000 including wire transfers, transactions on Zelle and CashApp, a fraudulent Venmo transaction to a shoe store for around $20,000, and attempted unauthorized transfers from his cryptocurrency account, the report said.
In the third case, also from December, a man said he met a woman at Sugar Nightclub in Brickell and brought her back to his hotel room.
He said he had a drink and started to feel ill then lost consciousness and blacked out for several hours until he woke up and discovered his gold Rolex Day-Date watch worth $38,000 was missing, along with $1,500 in cash, the report said.
The watch was later pawned, the report said.
Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from the incidents and identified the woman as Tavano, who they knew from investigations involving men who were brought back to hotel rooms “under the pretense of consensual sex” who consumed drinks, lost consciousness and then discovered their property stolen, the report said.
On Sunday, investigators learned Tavano was back at Sugar Nightclub and she was taken into custody.
When she was detained Tavano was in possession of suspected cocaine, suspected Seroquel, and a bottle of Jagermeister containing a cloudy liquid with visible powder residue settled at the bottom, the report said.
Tavano, of St. Augustine, was booked into jail.