Metro

Thug busted in $36K jewel heist after befriending home-alone teen

A career criminal stole more than $36,000 worth of jewelry from a posh Lower Manhattan building after befriending a 19-year-old whose parents were away on vacation, according to police.

Jamar Allah came to visit the teen inside the New York by Gehry high-rise at 8 Spruce Street, where her family has an apartment on Sunday around 10 p.m., according to police.

The woman met the man through work, police sources said.

But Allah showed up with five other men and that’s when she became scared and nervous, cops said.

She asked them to leave around 4 a.m. and demanded to check his backpack but he refused and fled the scene with his buddies, cops said.

But when the young woman’s parents returned the following day, they discovered the valuables were missing from the bedroom dresser that had been tampered with, police sources said.

An Antonio Penasa bracelet, Movado watch, diamond and gold rings, and several other pieces of jewelry valued at $36,500 had vanished, police sources said.

The young woman’s 56 year-old mother immediately reported it to police.

Jamar Allah was nabbed the next day on a separate incident involving a Gramercy assault from Sept. 1, police sources said.

In that incident, Allah allegedly punched a 22-year-old woman in the chest on East 15th Street near Second Avenue. The victim’s boyfriend tried to intervene but Allah then assaulted him and spit in his face, the sources said.

They were able to link him to the Spruce Street theft after reviewing video surveillance and statements the victim’s made, the sources said.

He was slapped with a grand larceny charge.

Allah has more than 20 prior arrests, cops said.