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Miami Beach Police arrested an employee at the iconic Fontainebleau hotel, alleging that he stole a Miami Hurricanes championship ring from the lobby. Police said the theft happened Sunday at the same hotel where the team was staying for the championship game on Monday. According to an arrest report, surveillance video showed a man – later identified as Jean Dor – picking up a ring from the hotel lobby, placing it into his pocket and then walking away with it. The ring belonged to Cari-Anne Constant, who was wearing a larger male version of the University of Miami championship ring that had belonged to her former husband. She received the ring as the co-captain of the Sunsations dance team. Constant took it to a party at the LIV nightclub inside the hotel, a celebration for the championship game between the Hurricanes and the Hoosiers, which she attended with her boyfriend, Joe Mullins. “That ring was very special to her,” Mullins said. He said Constant took it off momentarily and put it on the table. As she walked out of the hotel, she realized it was missing. Investigators said surveillance video shows Dor leaving the property, examining the ring outside, then re-entering the hotel with it still in his possession. Dor never turned the ring into lost and found or notified hotel staff, police said. “She was pretty shocked. It was very disturbing to her that the ring was stolen,” Mullins said. “It’s worth about $3,500 is what they paid for it.” Dor told police he intended to turn the ring in but claimed he forgot it on a bathroom counter while cleaning a restroom. Officers said he was read his Miranda rights in Creole and signed a written statement acknowledging he found the ring and failed to return it. Dor was suspended from his job, trespassed from the Fontainebleau property, and taken into custody. “It’s more sentimental,” Mullins said. “It means more to her. I hope he does the right thing and returning it.” NBC Miami reached out to both the hotel and police for the surveillance footage and a comment on the man accused of stealing the ring, but we have not heard back yet. College Football Playoff Jan 19 Recap: Indiana beats Miami 27-21 in CFP National Championship game College Football Playoff Jan 19 Winners, losers as Indiana tops Miami 27-21 to win first CFP championship

The European Union’s legislative body on Wednesday halted work on the formal approval and implementation of the trade deal it reached last summer with President Donald Trump. “Given the continued and escalating threats, including tariff threats, against Greenland and Denmark, and their European allies, we have been left with no alternative but to suspend work” on the deal, said Bernd Lange, the chairman of the European Parliament’s international trade committee. “Until the US decides to re-engage on a path of cooperation rather than confrontation,” no steps to move the deal forward would be taken, Lange said in a statement. “Our sovereignty and territorial integrity are at stake,” he added in a post on X. “Business as usual impossible.” US & World Trump administration Jan 19 Trump links Greenland threats to Nobel snub as Europe eyes tariff retaliation NATO Jan 12 How NATO works at a time of Trump's Greenland threats Trump administration Jan 5 Trump revisits possible Greenland annexation over national security concerns The announcement came after Trump on Saturday said he would hit seven European Union countries, plus the U.K., with tariffs if they did not allow the United States to control Greenland. The E.U. trade deal was reached in July during a visit by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Trump’s golf club in Turnberry, Scotland. The core of the deal was a cap on U.S. tariffs applied to most imports from the E.U. at just 15%. The rate was among the lowest received by any trading partner last year. Some imports from the E.U., such as generic pharmaceuticals would have had all tariffs removed. In exchange for the lower tariff rate, the European Union, America’s largest trading partner, would have lowered tariffs on some goods it imports from the United States. This would have helped American agricultural and industrial companies sell products into the 27-country bloc. When the deal was first announced, the European Commission said it “restores stability and predictability.” But all that changed with Trump’s Saturday tariff threat. “In politics as in business, a deal is a deal” Von der Leyen said on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum. “And when friends shake hands, it must mean something.”

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