A Chicago man was sentenced Thursday for his role in a flash mob theft that netted an estimated $210,000 in designer handbags from a Louis Vuitton store inside River North’s Nordstrom nearly two years ago.
Michael Bibbs, 20, received a five-year sentence from Judge Natosha Toller after pleading guilty to theft of $100,000 to $500,000. His sentencing came just days after another mob struck a separate Louis Vuitton store on the Magnificent Mile, escaping with an estimated $150,000 in merchandise.
Shortly before 8 p.m. on November 15, 2023, a group of ten people—wearing face masks, hoodies, and gloves—rode an escalator up to the Louis Vuitton section inside Nordstrom at 55 East Grand, according to a Chicago police report…