A crew of Saks Fifth Avenue employees was busted after they charged at least $400,000 worth of luxury shoes, handbags and other items using customers’ stolen credit card numbers, authorities said Wednesday.
Six workers at the Midtown fashion Mecca swiped credit card data from 22 customers in a spending spree that stretched from May until earlier this month, according to a criminal complaint.
Ringleader Tamara Williams, 36, of Queens got the customers’ personal information from the retailer’s computers and passed it along to five sales associates at the store, the complaint said.
Williams then gave the five “lists of merchandise to purchase on the stolen credit cards,” the complaint said, and the five would buy the high-priced goods using the unsuspecting customers’ credit information.
“Williams would send a third group of individuals into Saks, (The Fake Shoppers), who would take the bags of fraudulently purchased items from certain of the … associates and return the items to her at designated meeting places in Queens,” the complaint said.
Cops watched some of the employees making the illicit purchases on surveillance video at the Fifth Avenue landmark, the complaint said.
On Friday, they raided Williams’ home at 86-07 239th St. in Bellerose Queens, where they found her along with “over one hundred boxes of shoes … as well as many boxes of handbags and other merchandise,” the complaint said.
Williams; Kris Rockson, 45; Jason Chance, 25; Michael Knight-Williams, 44; Michael Bright-Asante, 39, and Alaia Harrison, 20, were all busted Friday and charged with grand larceny and identify theft.
Over 100 boxes of shoe’s and this developmentally challenged chick got arrested with the goods in her apartment. There goes the BX parade of boot and bags!
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Only Quena man, only Quena :hammer :hammer :hammer
Why do they always feel they are outsmarting someone? If that had been Florida, they would have charged them with organized crime.
OMG…..What a rass
Is one ting be a tief. But tief and fool nuh go togedda . y not stash the goods elsewhere. She should a tief some common sense from one a the customers.
met! she alway deh pon the jamaica ave. inna salim a sale but start hangout down a the two big batty twin shop. that’s where she do har business transaction at. Apple did ah work with har too,but mi hear dem fallout over some money thing.
Look like a round up week this week fi di police/FBI. Round dem up, round dem up, no sah dem yah people really think dem cah a ThiefT suh and wouldn’t get ketch? Dem seh bucket guh a well ebry day one day di bottom a guh drop out. A wondah how many a dem a shake innah dem stolen shoes and hiding di stolen bags innah anaddah stolen bag? A wandah if this going to have any effect on the “CHAMPAIGN” in action pawdy?What about the planned trips, which may not be for the original destination/s? Oh what tangled webs they weave…
Tinan say champaign :hammer I doe sorry fi dem because when people warn dem all dem talk bout is badmine and post more
Di ting wah bun mi more dan anything u si Met is how dem knowingly mess up so many people credit, and know seh if u nuh hab good credit fi certain things wah u want innah uncle sam country u karnah dark.
dem nuh care bout people living di only living is social media very wicked
Metty, Hurry up get a picha mek we see who this person is yaah mum.
Well we have the name and address all we need now is a paparazzi
Mi nuh respect ppl like dem! Jus ah mash up ppl good good credit..same shit happen to me…
Lock up dem bumbo…
I know her. Luv to brag an boast an luv attention, well now she will get nuff a it.
She too bad wid har country Portland self she hired a lot of ppl fi swipe fi har like hairdresser Grenadian Debbie nd 1 fat 1 name fridge Aka Dionne nd dem Nuh look good Dionne still a wear dentures & hotty hotty Keisha sister kim was an employee of Tammy wat u sow u reap a Tammy deport Palm tree pat man hoodini snitch pon him.. Whooie!!