His ticket has finally been punched!
A poster-boy opponent of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program was busted by the feds in an elaborate ticket-scalping scheme — while on probation for an earlier rip-off that preyed on tourists hoping to attend blockbuster Broadway shows and sporting events.
Angel Ortiz — who publicly blasted stop and frisk and later scored $15,000 from the city through a class-action suit — allegedly used stolen credit card information to buy more than $180,000 worth of tickets to “The Book of Mormon,” “Dear Evan Hansen” and other shows during 2016 and 2017.
Ortiz, 24, used a variety of aliases to hawk the tickets on Craigslist, where he also offered tough-to-get tickets to the smash musical “Hamilton,” according to White Plains federal prosecutors.
But some of the ducats he allegedly sold were actually fakes, which one repeat customer found out the hard way by purchasing six for between $3,000 and $3,200.
Ortiz’s racket also involved several PayPal accounts that he opened with stolen identities and used to accept payments, court papers said.
Ortiz was previously busted three times for selling counterfeit tickets and was sentenced to five years probation in 2014.
At the time, he claimed he was going straight by working as a doorman in Midtown but expressed no remorse and actually blamed his victims.
“I’m their karma and this is my karma — we all got karma,” he said outside court.
Ortiz also said the people he scammed could have had “a way worse experience.”
“They could have come to New York and never left,” he said ominously.
Ortiz was busted by US Postal Inspection Service agents on Tuesday in Kissimmee, Fla., where court papers say the former Bronx resident lives in a gated community about 10 minutes from Disney World.
He’s charged with six counts of wire fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, which each carry maximum sentences of 10 to 20 years in prison.
Ortiz was released without bond pending a future appearance in White Plains federal court.
He didn’t return a message seeking comment, and the federal defender appointed to represent him in Florida declined to comment.
A spokeswoman for the Postal Inspection Service urged people to only buy tickets to events from “reputable” sellers.
“Never forget: if an offer sounds too good to be true, it is,” spokeswoman Donna Harris said.