An NYPD cop was caught peddling shoddy counterfeit North Face jackets on eBay, authorities said.
Police Officer Marc Florida, 42, advertised the outdoor gear on the auction site, where the company’s own investigators spotted the fakes and notified the NYPD, a criminal court complaint charges.
The Internal Affairs Bureau set up a sting and bought the bogus brand-name clothes before charging the officer with counterfeiting and 75 additional counts for possessing as many fake coats, the documents reveal.
The phony duds were easy to spot because letters in the brand-name were all stitched together in a continuous string, court records state. The real jackets have individually stitched letters for “The North Face,” which refers to the coldest side of The Eiger.
The now-trendy jackets were originally designed for extreme temperatures endured by skiers and mountaineers who actually scaled world-class peaks like the name-sake in The Alps.
“The materials used (for the knockoffs) are of inferior quality,” the company expert explained.
Florida was caught selling copycats to an undercover IAB detective in Sunset Park around 5:45 p.m., Thursday, police and prosecutors said.