Couple Jailed For Stealing $1.7M In Wine From Spain Restaurant

A pair stole about $1.7 million in wine from a well-known Spanish restaurant in October 2021. This week, they obtained a four-year jail sentence for it.

Based on CNN, a Mexican girl and her Romanian-Dutch boyfriend snatched 45 wine bottles from Atrio, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Caceres, Spain.

A Spanish provincial courtroom named the couple Tatania and Estanislao, per the BBC, however PEOPLE and Spanish media recognized them as Priscila Guevara and Constantín Dumitru. A number of shops have reported that Guevara was a former Mexican magnificence pageant queen.

CNN reviews that the couple visited Atrio not less than thrice within the months resulting in the theft. On October 27, 2021, the couple dined on a 14-course dinner on the restaurant earlier than taking a guided tour of its wine cellar. Earlier that night, Priscila reportedly checked right into a small resort hooked up to the restaurant utilizing a faux Swiss passport.

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Someday after the dinner and tour, the couple returned to the room. Constantín didn’t test in as a visitor however joined the lady. At about 2 a.m., the lady ordered a salad from the entrance desk. The entrance desk clerk ultimately gave in to the lady’s request, regardless of being the one worker on the resort.

Constantín used the room service distraction to steal an digital key to the wine cellar from the entrance desk. Nevertheless, PEOPLE  reviews that the primary key didn’t work. So, Priscila referred to as the entrance desk once more–ordering dessert.

Then, at about 5 a.m., the couple drove off with 45 bottles wrapped in 4 resort towels and hidden in journey baggage. On the time of the theft, police mentioned the heist was deliberate in “minute element.” 

Right here’s Why The Wine Bottles Had been Value Over $1 Million

So why did the wine value a lot? The couple stole luxurious and classic bottles from Atrio.

Two bottles of their stolen haul reportedly got here from the French vineyard Chateau d’Yquem. One bottle from 1806 allegedly had a 350,000 euros (over $369,000) price ticket, whereas the opposite 1883 bottle was listed at 45,000 euros (over $47,000).

Their stolen items additionally included classic bottles from the Nineties and 2000s–sourced from different well-known and high-standing wineries.

When police arrested the couple in July 2022, not one of the stolen wine was recovered. Priscila and Constantín had been reportedly found on the border of Montenegro and Croatia and have been in jail since their arrest. The restaurant’s insurance coverage firm reduce a test for about 753,000 euros–about $794,298 in at the moment’s trade market.

The courtroom has additionally ordered the couple at hand over the identical quantity in damages to Atrio’s insurer whereas sentencing the lady to 4 years and her boyfriend to 4 and a half years for armed theft.

Nevertheless, the couple reportedly can enchantment the sentence as it isn’t but remaining.