A group of shoplifters who made off with a stack of $90,000 handbags from a Balenciaga store in the Hamptons have been captured by cops after a car chase across Long Island, it was announced on Friday officials.
The crew of five from Newark, NJ – three men and two women – entered the East Hampton Village luxury fashion store at 1.30pm on Thursday, grabbed a number of expensive handbags in less than an hour. half a minute and took off in a black Dodge Durango, cops said.
New York State Police then spotted the car on the Sunrise Freeway near the Westhampton Beach exit and chased it until the car got a flat near exit 69 on the freeway of Long Island, where the suspected thieves abandoned the car and fled into a wooded area next to the highway, police said.
By 6.30pm, cops had caught up with three of the men – Ali Harris, 28, Jamal Johns, 25, and Wazir Rodgers, 25 – and one of the women, Baseemah Tamika Davis, 34.
The fifth crew member stays upwind.
The four men were arrested on Friday for robbery and criminal possession of stolen property, officers said.
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