Migrant pickpocket crew nabbed working the crowd at NYC Governor’s Ball Festival: police

A crew of migrant pickpockets was nabbed plying their trade at the Governor’s Ball Festival in Queens — and all three are back on the streets, according to police and court records.

Police responded to the three-day music festival at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Friday night on reports of stolen phones, where eagle-eyed cops spotted the three Colombian immigrants — including one woman who was caught grabbing a phone out of the victim’s purse, law enforcement sources said.

Three migrants — Maritza Cortes Palomo, 35, Windi Paola Mendoza Echeverry, 34, and Maria Mendoza, 30 — were arrested at the park and charged with fourth-degree grand larceny and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, an NYPD spokesperson said Sunday…

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