Here are two cops who wouldn’t pass the smell test.
A pair of NYPD officers are among a group of eight people busted for robbing about $1 million worth of perfume last month from a New Jersey warehouse, authorities announced today.
Officers Richard LeBlanca, 25, and Brian Checo, 24, and three other men entered the warehouse in Carlstadt on Feb. 9 at about 6 p.m., pulled out their guns and badges and yelled, “NYPD! Hands up!”
The officers were arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Newark and remanded without bail.
New Jersey US Attorney Paul Fishman said the armed robbery charge leveled against the men “is an extremely serious federal crime.”
He said the two cops had “sworn to uphold the very laws that they are alleged to have violated” and “constitute nothing less than the ultimate betrayal of the trust afforded these officers.”
The feds said a third suspect, identified as Orlando Garcia, 35, is a former NYPD officer.
Federal prosecutors allege that the officers claimed they were conducting a “routine inspection” of the storage facility, according to the criminal complaint.
The plan, the feds claim, was for the perfume to be stolen and then sold on the black market in New York and across the country.
Federal prosecutors said 11 employees of In Style USA’s warehouse, which distributes high-end fragrances, were held at gunpoint while the men stole the perfume bottles.
The company distributes fragrances made by designers Versace, Christian Dior, Fendi and Giorgio Armani, according to its Web site.
The workers were forced into an office and had their hands tied behind them.
Carlstadt police arrived a few hours later after receiving a 911 call and arrested two of the suspects and seized two box trucks.