{"id":126878,"date":"2026-01-21T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126878\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:50:09","slug":"woman-accused-of-drugging-and-ripping-off-multiple-men-she-met-at-miami-clubs-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126878\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of drugging and ripping off multiple men she met at Miami clubs \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Jean Tavano, 39, was arrested Sunday on charges including strongarm robbery, organized fraud, grand theft, and burglary of an occupied dwelling, records showed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/012126-Sarah-Jean-Tavano.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Sarah Jean Tavano\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMiami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Jean Tavano<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from at least three alleged incidents dating back to October of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The man said he was heavily intoxicated and didn&#8217;t remember large portions of the night including inviting the woman to his apartment.<\/p>\n<p>But surveillance footage showed her arriving and leaving his apartment with two suitcases about an hour later, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But a fingerprint left behind at the apartment was later found to be Tavano&#8217;s, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The man told investigators he blacked out and didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The watch was later pawned, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;under the pretense of consensual sex&#8221; who consumed drinks, lost consciousness and then discovered their property stolen, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, investigators learned Tavano was back at Sugar Nightclub and she was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Tavano, of St. Augustine, was booked into jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman is facing charges after police said she allegedly drugged multiple men she met at Miami bars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-126878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news","11":"tag-miami"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}