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Florida Man Proposes Using Rings Stolen From Other Lover: Deputies
ORANGE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man stole an engagement ring and wedding bands from a girl- friend and used them to propose to another girl- friend, according to authorities.
Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies said Thursday they have issued an arrest warrant for Joseph Davis, 48, who had not been found as of Friday.
Their investigation started earlier this year when a woman from Orange City, Florida, told detectives she had discovered her boyfriend was actually engaged to someone else. When she looked up the fiancée’s Facebook page, she noticed a photo of her wearing a wed- ding band and engagement ring that was identical to her own from a prior marriage,
the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
When the Orange City woman checked her jew- elry box, she found her rings were missing, as were several other pieces of jewelry, including a diamond ring that belonged to her grandmother. The total value of the stolen proper-
ty was about $6,270, according to the sheriff’s office.
Orange City is located halfway between Orlando and Daytona Beach.
The Orange City woman reached out to the fiancee, who returned some of the items, and they both called it off
with Davis, who also went by the names “Joe Brown” and “Marcus Brown,” the sheriff’s office said.
The fiancee, who lives in Orlando, told detectives she had been duped too.
Davis once took the fiancee to a house that actual- ly belonged to the
Orange City woman, while she was at work, and claimed it was his. He then asked the fiancee to move in with him, but he then disappeared. By that time, the fiancee discov- ered her laptop computer and jewelry were missing, the sher- iff’s office said.
Even though they
did not have his real name, the jilt- ed women remembered he had a relative in North Carolina and detectives were able to track down the relative who identified Davis, according to the sheriff’s office.
Davis has an active arrest war- rant for a hit-and- run crash with injuries in Oregon, and pre- viously has been arrested for pos- session of ficti- tious ID, filing a false police report, domestic assault and pos- session of cocaine with intent to sell, the sheriff’s office said.
According to the sheriff’s office, the jail where Davis previously was booked noted he had a tattoo on his left arm that said, “Only God can judge me.”
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