Police had no trouble catching a couple that stole from a Florida art gallery – as the man and woman left her name and phone number in the gallery’s guestbook.
Megan Ohara, 24, and David Ziskoski, 19, were arrested Sunday by the Palm Beach Police Department after police say they took a ring and a bracelet valued at $6,000 from the ICFA Gallery in Palm Beach.
The jewelry was sitting on the counter as part of an exhibit. Ohara and Ziskoski were busted a short time later with the items in her purse. But, it was the gallery’s guestbook that really makes this story what it is. Via Sun Sentinel:
As officers arrived back to the gallery, the artist said he had noticed something in his gallery’s guestbook. Someone had written multiple fake email entries into the guestbook, including “wedidnttakeit@gmail.com,” according to the arrest report.
Two of the fake emails included the name “Meg” and one included Ohara’s phone number next to it. Also on the page was a drawing of male genitalia and a woman’s face labeled as “Meg.”
Later at the Palm Beach County Jail, Ziskoski told investigators he and Ohara were the ones who the put the entries in the guestbook, and again said they took the jewelry, according to the report.
“If I knew that they cost that much, I wouldn’t have taken it,” Ohara said, according to the report.
The couple has been charged with grand theft. They were booked than released from jail Sunday.
