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Celts guard robbed at New York club?

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A guarded Sebastian Telfair admitted last night that he spent the second half of the Celtics’ loss in New York Tuesday night at a police station, looking at lineups in an attempt to identify the man who stole his gold chain the previous night outside a Manhattan club owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs, according to the BOSTON HERALD.

The theft occurred just hours before rapper Fabolous was shot in the right thigh outside the club.

Telfair, a Brooklyn native, said he was inside Justin’s Bar and Grill with his fiancee, Samantha Rodriguez, at approximately 10 p.m. when he decided to walk outside. Telfair told police that the chain, reportedly valued at $50,000, was ripped from his neck by an unknown man. The alleged thief, part of a group, then ran off.

Telfair returned to the restaurant to report the theft, though he reportedly turned down an offer by an attendant to call police.

A New York Police Department source told the Herald yesterday that Telfair became “uncooperative” after telling cops he had been robbed.