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Taco Bake: Frisk teen mum at 'fake tickets' arraignment

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A big-mouthed poster boy for the city’s anti-stop-and-frisk 
movement was suddenly tight-lipped at his arraignment on a grand-
larceny rap in Manhattan on Sunday.

Angel Ortiz, 19, was charged with grand larceny, felony 
possession of a forged instrument and fraudulent accosting after 
peddling phony Broadway and concert tickets to six victims on a 
half-dozen occasions, authorities said.

The alleged fraudster pocketed $3,000 in the scheme, officials 
said. It was his third bust on charges of selling bogus ducats 
since spring.

Ortiz, who didn’t say a word in court before being remanded on 
$10,000 bail, grabbed headlines in 2012 as a plaintiff in a stop-
and-frisk lawsuit filed against the city with the help of the 
New York Civil Liberties Union. The NYCLU did not return request 
for comment Sunday.“I could have bought the Brooklyn Bridge from 
this guy, he was so charming,’’ Manes said.

At the time, Ortiz told reporters that he and his buddies “were 
stopped, frisked and arrested for trespassing’’ near his Bronx 
home for no reason.

Harvey Manes, a surgeon from Long Island, told The Post on 
Sunday that he was one of Ortiz’s ticket-scam victims.

He said he bought two tickets from Ortiz for a Sarah Brightman 
concert at Radio City Music Hall in September. He said he hadn’t 
even planned on attending the event, but wound up buying the 
tickets for $25 a piece after initially balking at their $100 
“face value.’’

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