After a night of bowling with her friends and then visiting her boyfriend in Coral Springs, Arial Dressner returned to her Boca Raton home to find more than a dozen of her designer handbags — all given to her to mark special events in her life — and an Apple computer gone.
She estimated the combined cost of the handbags was $24,000.
Despite closing it, the sliding-back door was open and her front door was locked, which she hadn’t locked.
When the 21-year-old told friends about the burglary of her home she shares with her mother, they didn’t seem sympathetic, Dressner reported to police.
Now one of those friends, Jacob Ropp, is in the Palm Beach County Jail facing charges of grand theft and burglary of a dwelling. Ropp, 23, also of Boca Raton, admitted to the burglary and said he was able to get into his friend’s room by way of a ladder, which he fell off while carrying the woman’s computer.
Dressner told police Ropp and another friend were at her home Aug. 27 before they all went to Strikes bowling alley. Dressner then left and went to her boyfriend’s home while Ropp and their friend left together. When Dressner returned home the next day she reported to police that 27 purses were stolen along with jewelry and a 21-inch Apple computer monitor.
She then realized that only 14 of her purses were stolen. The brands included Coach, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, she told police.
That night, Dressner’s mother Ava Agrelo said she awoke to loud noises coming from her daughter’s bedroom. She tried opening the bedroom door, but it was locked. When she didn’t receive an answer from her daughter after texting her several times and didn’t see her daughter’s car in the driveway, she decided to return to her room.
A few days later, Ropp decided to return four purses. Ropp and his father went to Dressner’s home and gave her the purses — one that wasn’t hers — and the cracked computer monitor. Ropp told Dressner he stole the purses and that he cut his head when he fell off the ladder. He ended up going to Boca Raton Regional Hospital and received three staples.
Ropp begged Dressner not to call police, but Dressner told police she wanted them to press charges.
Police spoke with Ropp, who admitted he was high on Xanax when in the car with the third friend and they decided together after leaving the bowling alley to steal her belongings. He admitted to police that he stole the purses and monitor, however he denied stealing the jewelry.
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