The State - News from Aug. 7, 1989
San Francisco police have arrested a man who allegedly stole more than $1 million worth of Rolex watches by posing as a physician. Steven Lyman Rivas, 28, was arrested Friday at Franklin Hospital, where he allegedly tried to bilk a local jeweler out of a $6,500 watch. Inspector Gary Jimenez said that Rivas would contact people advertising to sell Rolex watches. Then posing as a busy doctor, he would excuse himself--and disappear with the watch. “He was extremely cool, confident, well-dressed; a very convincing con man,” said Jimenez.
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