Warning: One-night stands can be costly

COEUR d’ALENE — A one night stand left a Coeur d’Alene woman with

more than regret and a headache.

Not that those two carry-overs were avoided, but a reported

booze-fueled fling also cost the 29-year-old victim nearly $500 after

she gave the suspect her ATM pin number the next morning.

Boy meets girl, the story goes, but in this case boy steals from girl, too.

The suspect believed to have swiped the money, the victim told police,

was the man she met at a downtown bar the night of July 15 and whom

she brought to her C Street home in the early morning hours July 16.

The suspect stayed there for approximately six hours, plenty of time

for lots of things, taking an ATM card from a purse among them.

The suspect, whose last name the victim could not provide police, was

described as a white male around 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a “burly

build,” shaved head and dark eyebrows. He knew where the purse was,

she told officers, because she kept it downstairs and the bedroom was

upstairs.

After all the late night ballyhoo, the suspect told the woman he was

going to transfer money from his account to hers. He got on the phone

that morning and talked to his bank. The victim now believes he was

pretending to talk to his bank, but during the course of the one-sided

conversation he began giving a bunch of numbers and said to the

victim, “give me you pin number so they can transfer the money.”

The victim complied, telling officers she did so without thinking

because she was “groggy and hung over,” according to police reports.

Around 10 that morning, he left the woman’s house saying he was going to run some errands, returning an hour later with money he said he got from his mother.

Later, the victim noticed $300 in ATM withdrawals that took place that

morning on her bank statement. But before she realized that, the

victim went off to work, earning $190 in tips, which she left in her

purse downstairs that night with her door unlocked as she had invited

the man to sleep over again. When she woke the following morning, the

cash was gone.

The suspect was not around, but the victim noticed several missed

calls from him on her cell phone that had happened between 2 and 3

a.m.

Later she confronted the suspect, and he agreed to meet with her to

resolve the issue, the victim told police, but he never showed up.

She later saw him at the same bar, but he was with another woman. She called him on the phone and asked if the he would settle the issue or rather have the police involved.

He chose the latter, and the police report was filed Monday.

She canceled her ATM card before that.