HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – The time is up for one suspect who allegedly stole four high-end watches worth approximately $470,000, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
According to a release, Hasan N. Al-Haj, 31, was arrested in the Galleria area for aggregate theft of more than $300,000, which is a first-degree felony that carries a penalty of up to 99 years or life in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials said Al-Haj obtained two Patek Philippe and two Rolex watches as part of an agreement with a Houston businessman, according to court records.<\/p>\n
He was to sell them and the watches and then share the proceeds, but instead kept the watches and did not pay the partner, according to the records.<\/p>\n
The most expensive of the watches, which have yet to be recovered, is a gold Patek Philippe valued at $245,000.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“Such thievery can devastate a small business and set it back years,” Rosen said in a news release. “As for the defendant, as the saying goes, you can run, but you can\u2019t hide.”<\/p>\n
What’s next:<\/p>\n
The case is being investigated by detectives with the Office of Harris County Constable Precinct One.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
If anyone else has additional information on possible thefts involving Al-Haj, please contact detectives at 713-755-5200<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Harris County Constable Precinct 1<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Harris County<\/a>News<\/a>Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – The time is up for one suspect who allegedly stole four high-end watches worth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-141830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}