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A man suspected of plucking a 94-year-old woman’s pension money right out of her bra has been collared, sources told The Post.
The man, identified only as a 26-year-old, was arrested early Friday and held at the 25th Precinct — just three blocks from the Regines clothing store where wheelchair-bound Maria Vasquez was mugged Wednesday.
A startling video shows the heartless crook swiping a wad of cash totaling $600 from her brassiere as she shopped for new slippers at the store on East 116th Street in East Harlem at about 12:15 p.m., cops said.
Vasquez, a native of the Dominican Republic, was looking the other way at her caretaker as the thief struck, and she said she was stunned when he brazenly pawed at her chest.
“I was scared, I wasn’t expecting it,” she told The Post. “He reached over and startled me, yanking the envelope from the bra.”
The thug then scratched her and took off running, but is now in police custody.
Charges against him are pending.