A serial bandit was arrested in a spree of bank robberies in Manhattan and The Bronx,where he passed notes to tellers in most of the jobs asking for just $100 law-enforcement sources told The Post.
On Wednesday, Jamal Valentine lumbered into the Bank of America branch at 299 E. 204th St. in Norwood at 12:04 p.m., but the teller rebuffed him and he dashed out, the sources said.
About 40 minutes later, Valentine allegedly tried to rob the Citibank branch at 2560 Broadway on the Upper West Side but was again turned away.
He then rode a subway to Midtown while police were in hot pursuit tracking him via his cellphone.
Police had identified the ex-con by matching his fingerprints to those from an earlier demand note, the sources said.
Minutes later, Valentine was nabbed at Ninth Avenue near West 46th Street. Charges were pending.
On Monday, Valentine, 34, struck four times in Manhattan and once in The Bronx, getting just $450 during a four-hour spree, the sources said.
In each incident, he allegedly passed a note that read, “Give me 100,” sources said, adding that he never displayed a weapon.
The thief began his Monday spree at 1:33 p.m. at the Bank of America branch at 4061 Broadway in Washington Heights.
Two minutes later, he tried to rob the Capital One branch at 620 W. 181st St.
Then at about 2:30 p.m., he struck the Chase branch at 775 Columbus Ave. on the Upper West Side, cops said.
Twenty minutes later, he hit the Citibank branch at 4 Columbus Circle in Midtown.
He then allegedly hopped a subway up to The Bronx, where he robbed the Chase Bank at 257 East Fordham Road in Bedford Park.
He got $50 from the Chase branch on Columbus Avenue and $400 from the Chase branch in The Bronx, police sources said.
He left empty-handed from the three other branches, the sources said.
Valentine is on parole for a previous bank robbery conviction in which he hit six banks in The Bronx and several more in Manhattan, sources said.