The “Bonnie and Clyde” of the freezer aisle were busted in a massive Chelsea ice-cream heist after supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis put a $5,000 bounty on their heads.
One of the suspects, Mark Hicks, “loved to brag about” his exploits — waving around a store worker’s cellphone photo of him published in The Post while boasting, ‘I’m famous!’ ” according to a man who identified himself as the pair’s roommate.
“They used an ‘I heart NY’ bag that fits 50 pints exactly — two rows of five, stacked five high,” the man said of the pair’s alleged thievery, adding that he’s the one who dropped the dime on the couple to cops. “[Hicks] said he would make $150 on that alone.”
The pair didn’t sell all their loot, however, according to the roomie.
“They’d eat it on the couch, right out of the container,” he said. “They asked me what flavor I liked . . . They took orders.”
Hicks, 37, and Ebony Gillian, 34, were nabbed at a Brooklyn bus stop Sunday based on a call to Crime Stoppers, according to the NYPD. Cop don’t identify the hot line’s tipsters.
The roomie, who wouldn’t give his name, said the pair moved into his spare room at his Brownsville Houses pad about a week ago for $80-a-day rent.
Hicks boasted to him that the couple cleared up to $700 a caper by fencing the frozen treats to bodegas in lower Manhattan and along Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, the man said.
Hicks and Gillian were arraigned on petit-larceny charges at Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday, and each held in lieu of $1,000 bail because they had outstanding warrants.
Catsimatidis offered the $5,000 reward after losing 49 pints of Häagen-Dazs and 31 pints of Ben & Jerry’s in the Chelsea caper.
“If they were hungry and they stole it because they were hungry . . . we’re not going to give them a problem,” he said. “But if they’re professional crooks that steal in order to resell it, then the hell with ’em.”