Black Transvestite Fashion Thieves Run Amok
by Jeff Davis
Well, folks, it looks like New Orleans is indeed recovering from Hurricane Katrina, and it’s back to business as usual. The New Orleans City Business website reports that the “trendy boutiques and fashion spas of the French Quarter and central business district are now being terrorized by a dangerous band of criminals– outlaw transvestites on the panther-like prowl for Prada, Gucci goons, desperados in drag who are pulling high-fashion heists all up and down the Lower Garden District, Magazine Street and the French Quarter since May.”
A recent news article reports “Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May. Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling. ‘They’re coming,’ she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces for the onslaught. Soon every shop owner in the 2000 block of Magazine Street has been alerted. Sarah Celino at Trashy Diva eyes the door, ready to flip the lock at the first sight of the ringleader’s pink jumpsuit and fluorescent red wig. Down at Turncoats, where the fashion-happy gang once made off with more than $2,000 in merchandise, store manager Wes Davis stands ready… Ogle gave police a description of the perpetrators — African-American males ranging in height from 6 feet to 6-5. They all wore the same midriff shirts and wigs with twisted, dreadnaught hair. ‘They’re all very skinny and very flamboyant,’ Ogle said.” (more…)