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Woman steals tourist’s $25K Rolex, hides it inside her vagina: cops

The scene of the crime: Holiday Inn at 125 West 26th. St. in Manhattan.
Mariela Lombard for New York Daily News
The scene of the crime: Holiday Inn at 125 West 26th. St. in Manhattan.
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She could do some time for this.

A 25-year-old woman snatched an Australian tourist’s $25,000 Rolex and hid it in her vagina after an early morning hookup in a Manhattan hotel room, officials said.

Brenton Price was getting a massage from Shacarye Tims in his room at the Holiday Inn in Chelsea about 5:30 a.m. Oct. 19, after meeting her at a bar, police said.

“I just innocently picked up a girl at a bar and got robbed,” Price said when reached in California.

“I was a tourist,” he told the Daily News. “I met someone and got robbed. I helped catch the criminal.”

Shacarye Tims, 25, is accused of trying run off with an Australian man's prized possession.
Shacarye Tims, 25, is accused of trying run off with an Australian man’s prized possession.

A source said Tims also had priors in other states, including a prostitution arrest in Las Vegas.

Price put his Yacht-Master II Rolex on the nightstand at the 125 W. 26th St. hotel after Tims complained it was scratching her, police sources said.

When he noticed the Rolex was missing about 10 minutes later, Tims suggested that it might have fallen behind the nightstand, cops said.

As Price searched, Tims tried to hightail it out of the hotel but the Aussie caught up with her in the lobby.

Australian Brenton Price (center) said he just picked up a woman at the bar and was targeted in a theft.
Australian Brenton Price (center) said he just picked up a woman at the bar and was targeted in a theft.

She smacked him repeatedly in the face “causing him to suffer swelling and bruising,” according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

A female cop told prosecutors she saw Tims take the Rolex “out of her vaginal cavity and hand it to me,” the criminal complaint states.

Tims, of Georgia, is charged with robbery and grand larceny. She was held on a $10,000 bond at Rikers Island, records show. Her next court appearance is set for Oct 24.

Her lawyer, David B. Epstein, said cops “bullied” her to hand over the pricey timepiece.

The scene of the crime: Holiday Inn at 125 West 26th. St. in Manhattan.
The scene of the crime: Holiday Inn at 125 West 26th. St. in Manhattan.

“It should shock the conscious of any right-thinking New Yorker to learn that a young lady visiting from out of town was bullied by authorities to retrieve an object from the most intimate part of her body,” he said.

A source said cops took her to the hospital and threatened to have it removed.

Tims was also charged this week in a Sept. 23 incident during which she went into a Midtown hotel room with a 25-year-old man from Switzerland at about 2 a.m. and allegedly stole his credit cards while he was sleeping, prosecutors said. She took $400 from the man’s bank account using his PIN, according to court records.

tmoore@nydailynews.com