North Carolina police
are seeking to find a con artist who stole more than $300,000 in cash, jewelry and clothes
from rapper Trina.
Trina was performing
Friday morning at Club Dynasty in Greenville, North Carolina an unidentified
man posed as Trina’s manager and persuaded a Hilton hotel employee to give him
a key to the her room.
Investigators are
looking at a hotel security tape that shows the clerk and the suspect.
According to reports, the
tape quality was in question, but was the only solid lead in trying to identify
the suspect.
"Sixteen years
in the business and this has never happened," Trina’s real manager Mike
Hopkins told the Daily Reflector. "That’s why we stay in places like this
for security reasons. We don’t stay nowhere below four-star hotels."
Employee’s of the
hotel said because if the sheer number of people coming and going from the hotel, it
was nearly impossible to distinguish who was with Trina’s entourage and who
wasn’t.
"We’re mortified;
nothing like this has ever happened before," Hilton general manager Rhesa
Tucker said . "This is a very secure facility, and we take all measures
to make sure that every guest and their belongings are safe at all times."
