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PREGNANT GAL BATTLES ROB THUG

A seven-months-pregnant restaurant worker was knocked down and dragged on her belly by a thug who ripped off a deposit bag containing $8,700, authorities said yesterday.

But a co-worker and three other Samaritans caught the 16-year-old suspect after a chase through Greenwich Village, and the money was recovered.

During the chase, suspect Brian Lebron of The Bronx dropped the bag near St. Vincent’s Hospital.

The drama unfolded at 4:40 p.m. Monday as Mayra Mejia, an assistant manager at a Better Burger at 19th Street and Eighth Avenue, and co-worker Carlos Almonte were headed to the bank to make a deposit.

Mejia had the leather bag holding the money in a plastic bag wrapped around her hand.

At 14th Street and Seventh Avenue, authorities said, Lebron came up behind Mejia and grabbed the bag.

The pregnant woman was dragged on her stomach for 10 feet before Lebron pulled the bag away, sources said.