Arrest Legal Aid staffer in $5G credit card scam

A Legal Aid paralegal was busted Monday in a bizarre case involving a credit card scam, a $5,500 purse and a false claim she is a cop, authorities said.

Toni Myers, 30, allegedly used a man’s credit card to buy the pricey purse Feb. 21, cops say. The man, 29, got a fraud alert about the purchase.

The next day, Myers and another woman tried to pick up the purse from the man’s Chelsea apartment building, but the doorman was suspicious.

“I noticed the first because she was stalking the FedEx deliveryman,” the doorman said of the other woman involved. “She said, I’m [the victim’s] wife when she tried to pick up the package. But I obviously knew she wasn’t his wife.”

The doorman, who didn’t give his name, said he called the victim’s partner, who clued him into the fraud alert.

The woman ran off, and a half-hour later, Myers showed up, he said..

“She showed me the receipt for the bag on her phone. She showed me a badge and said she was a police officer,” the doorman recalled. “I said, ‘If you’re a police officer, let me call another police officer, so we’ll have two police officers here.’ ”

He added, “And she ran away, like the other one.”

After the doorman called 911, police identified Myers with the help of surveillance video.

She was arrested at 7 a.m. at her Midtown home for attempted grand larceny and impersonating a police officer.

As she was taken out of the 13th Precinct stationhouse, Myers told officers, “I want to vent. I went to a place on 16th St. I parked my car. … I didn’t do anything wrong,” according to prosecutors.

Myers wept as she spoke with her attorneys and someone from the district attorney’s office before her arraignment in

Manhattan Criminal Court Monday.

Judge Nicholas Moyne ordered her released on her own recognizance, despite prosecutors’ request that she be placed on supervised release.

“She shows a brazen disregard for law enforcement,” said Assistant District Attorney Rashmika Nedungadi.

The prosecutor tried to bring up a past child endangerment arrest, noting she pleaded to a lesser charge, but Myers’ lawyer, Michael Baldwin, argued that the old case shouldn’t be on her rap sheet.

“The people should not be referencing that,” Moyne agreed.

The Legal Aid Society provides free legal representation for defendants who can’t afford lawyers.

“We have minimal information about these allegations and therefore, cannot comment further at this time,” a Legal Aid spokesman said.