The heroin-addict bank robber who became one of the most-wanted men in New York for a spree that began around Christmas had grenades inside his Queens home, sources revealed today.
Marat Mikhaylich, 35 — dubbed the “Holiday Bandit” — was captured Tuesday after the NYPD’s high- tech license-plate readers, along with the some old-fashioned detective work by the FBI, led cops to his allegedly stolen getaway car, the sources said.
After his arrest, police and FBI agents conducted a search of his Queens apartment on 84th Drive in Kew Gardens and found several grenades, sources told The Post.
The NYPD Bomb Squad later discovered that they were inert.
Mikhaylich is believed to be responsible for seven heists in Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well as two in New Jersey, authorities said.
In most cases, the Ukrainian-born giant lumbered up to the teller, pulled a pistol and demanded cash, said law-enforcement sources.
Monday, he robbed his last bank — in Edison, NJ — and sped away in a stolen Toyota, authorities said.
He was nailed in Queens after a camera picked up the plate in Woodside.
Cops said Mikhaylich has a rap sheet in California that include arrests for drug possession and petty theft.