His bag was swiped when he wasn’t looking … just like ordinary people.
Singer John Legend had his travel bag briefly stolen by a livery cab driver at Kennedy Airport, law enforcement sources said Friday.
The “Ordinary People” hitmaker’s bag contained a pair of Cartier Panther cufflinks valued at $30,000, about $500 in clothes and a $500 pair of eyeglasses, according to TMZ.
Legend had just got off a flight from France when his bag was snatched around 9 p.m. Thursday.
Legend tweeted out that the bag was stolen after “our Delta greeter made a mistake and left a bag on the cart.”
“We use a trusted car service and they did not rob me,” Legend wrote.
Port Authority cops viewed surveillance footage of the theft and quickly identified the suspect as Agusto Hilario, 64, who they describe as a “cabbie hustler” often arrested for illegally picking up fares.
Hilario is so well known to Port Authority cops that one of them called his cellphone shortly after he was identified from the video and told him to bring the bag back.
“He said he was going to return it to the lost and found,” said one law enforcement source. “We told him to bring it to us — then we arrested him.”
Charges against Hilario were pending Friday.
