A two-bit rap impresario and his sticky-fingered wife stole a Louis Vuitton bag at John F. Kennedy International Airport, pocketed the $2,100 they found inside and were boarding a plane to leave the country when cops collared them for the theft, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Wannabe mogul and sometimes-model Shael Torres, 31, and his wife, Alexsandria Collazo, 29, were caught on videotape Monday and quickly confessed to stealing the money – which they’d stashed in their own wallets and bags, according to a source.
“I found the bag, I took the cash,” Torres said when police caught up to the couple at Terminal 5 as they waited to board a flight to South Africa, police sources said.
Torres, who lives in Florida and also goes by the name Elsha, posts videos of himself rapping on YouTube and boasts on Linked In that – as president of a music venture call LOR Entertainment – “I make things happen.”
He and his missus were charged with grand larceny after being collared by Port Authority Sgt. Robert Zafonte and Eric Katz.
About an hour before the arrest, another JFK passenger, South Africa resident Julietta Cano, 32, reported her Vuitton bag missing to Port Authority cops, a source said. Cano thought she might have left the pricey purse on an Airtrain bench.
Police soon found the bag tossed into an elevator and returned it to Cano – who immediately noticed that $2,103 was missing.
Detectives went to the videotape, which “clearly showed” Torres and Collazo “acting in concert” as they grabbed the bag Cano had left behind and spirited it off to the elevator, taking out the cash.
Sweeping the airport, police found the couple standing at a gate and asked Torres if he’d found a bag.
That’s when Torres made his confession – and told police he’d put some of the stolen money in his wife’s bag, as well.
Investigators recovered $1,540 from Torres’ wallet, and $563 from Collazo’s, who protested, “some of that money is mine!”
Torres and Collazo were awaiting arraignment at press time and couldn’t be reached.
On one of his many self-promoting web pages, Torres claims he is “the brother of one of New England’s most infamous [drug] kingpings” but doesn’t elaborate.