These guys went on a shoe-buying binge that would shock Carrie Bradshaw.
The three black thieves who wore Caucasian masks during a $200,000 heist at a Queens check-cashing joint in 2012 spent their loot like moguls from Fifth Avenue to Rodeo Drive, according to testimony yesterday in Brooklyn federal court.
Akem Monsalvatge wasted no time in blowing his windfall and bought a gal pal a pair of $722 Louis Vuitton shoes at the designer’s 57th Street store just two days after the February 2012 stickup, prosecutors said.
He later paid $1,630 for a pair of spiked, gold, Christian Louboutin shoes for himself and $1,354 on a pair for the same girl in June of 2012.
Suspect Derrick Dunkley plunked down $669.58 for a single pair of Louis Vuitton “Slalom” sneakers in May 2012 in Manhattan.
Edward Byam forked over $615 for Vuitton sneakers and paid $535 for a single Louis belt that same month at the same location.
Not satisfied with their New York shopping options, the threesome took their wads of cash west on shopping sprees in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, prosecutors said.
The crew allegedly blew thousands at Gucci and Ralph Lauren stores on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and did the same in Vegas.
Prosecutor Tiana Demas presented a telling surveillance photo of defendant Akeem Monsalvatge with a Louis backpack, a Louis suitcase – and yes, even a pair of Louis sandals.
Drowning in bills, the crew spread their sudden wealth. One member of the team purchased a $600 belt in the largest size Vuitton had available for an unidentified but apparently rotund buddy.
All wore Hollywood-grade masks and NYPD badges around their necks to impersonate white cops, prosecutors claim.
They were eventually arrested, and are facing a slew of federal raps.