Tuesday, February 6, 2007

SPA THIEF IN WRAP


That's right the infamous Spa Thief has done his final Spa wrap and is now in custody. Were sure he will get plenty of steamed towels in his new dimly lit aesthetic room called

Clinker Spa with body rubs free of charge, what a deal.


He is being held at Lake County Jail.

After eluding police once, a man who is accused of stealing day spa services in McHenry County has been arrested, following a foot chase at a train depot in Lake Bluff.Marshall G. Wolbers, 56, of Lake Bluff, was charged with multiple counts of theft of services by the Algonquin and Lake in Hills police for walking out on the bill for expensive spa treatments in McHenry County, according to Algonquin police. He may have stolen nearly $1,000 in body waxings, massages, hair cuts, facials, manicures and pedicures.Wolbers was captured Saturday in Lake Bluff.

ordered up an array of services in at least 20 spas in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin since last March and left without paying the bill.

The man typically gets treatments such as a sea salt body polish, a hair cut and color, but before it's time for his massage, he says he has to leave the building to use his cell phone or get papers from his briefcase. Then, Doles said, the man leaves and never returns.