Man accused of grand theft after reporting getting robbed in Hobe Sound
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron
Henry Froats
STUART — A man who reported getting robbed of a half-million dollars in diamonds and jewelry was arrested on a grand theft charge after investigators realized the victim turned out to be their suspect.
Henry Froats, 30, told a Florida Highway Patrol trooper late Wednesday night he had been robbed on the side of Interstate 95 as he was fixing a flat tire shortly before 9:30 p.m.
Froats, who works a jewelry store, told the trooper a man in a blue vehicle pulled up behind him and robbed him at gun-point, taking off with a half-million dollars in jewelry and his cell phone.
Martin County Sheriff’s investigators checked Froats’s trunk and found a suitcase with a computer case that contained diamonds, a cell phone and a cell phone’s memory chip, according to a sheriff’s report.
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