A tourist visiting Miami is behind bars after he allegedly stole a $16,000 bottle of wine from a Brickell restaurant and a $40,000 statue from an art gallery, according to arrest reports.
Stevan Milovanovic, 35, is accused of two instances of grand theft that occurred on Saturday, authorities said.
Officers were first called to the restaurant Sexy Fish in Brickell at about 12:20 p.m. for a reported $16,000 theft.
Milovanovic and another man entered the restaurant and were seated as customers, police said. Before ordering, the suspect allegedly got up and went to the establishment’s wine cellar, which is restricted and not accessible to patrons.
The suspect allegedly removed a bottle of Monopole 1996 La Tache and hid it inside his jacket. Then he took another bottle from a nearby shelf and placed it in the stolen bottle’s spot “in an apparent attempt to avoid immediate detection.”
After that, he left the restaurant, police said. Shortly after, the other man paid in cash for the food ordered and left without eating the meal.
Surveillance footage captured Milovanovic getting into the passenger side of a red Jeep Wrangler.
Arrest reports state that hours later, the suspect went to Galeries Bartoux in the Miami Design District, where a witness said and surveillance corroborated that he swiped an art piece valued at $40,000.
On Monday at around 2:48 a.m., police said they spotted the red Jeep Wrangler going westbound on Interstate 395.
The arrest reports describe that Milovanovic came clean–identifying himself as the man in surveillance video, confirming the objects he stole and allegedly confessing to both thefts.
He was arrested and charged with second-degree and third-degree grand theft.
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