A St Joseph woman was ar­rest­ed and is ex­pect­ed to be charged with lar­ce­ny, af­ter she stole a bag con­tain­ing a lap­top and oth­er valu­ables from the bar at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain.

The vic­tim, who lives at Up­per Bournes Road, St James, re­port­ed leav­ing her bag on a ta­ble in the lob­by of the ho­tel last Thurs­day af­ter­noon be­fore go­ing off to con­duct a site vis­it around 3 pm.

The bag re­port­ed­ly con­tained the vic­tim’s sil­ver Ap­ple Mac­Book Air, which was val­ued at $12,000, along with her purse, which con­tained her bank and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards.