Feds busted the “Gatsby Bandit” bank robber on Tuesday after a family member alerted cops, authorities said.
Patrick Considine, 48, was taken into custody and charged with knocking off the HSBC Bank at 101 W. 14th St. in Manhattan last week, officials said.
He’s also being investigated in connection with two other bank robberies, both in Queens, at the Santander Bank at 83-20 Roosevelt Ave. and Investors Bank at 31-01 Broadway.
The robber in all those cases donned a distinctive 1920s, Gatsby-style cap.
A relative of Considine’s “had seen a news report on recent bank robberies, and [the family member] identified Considine as the individual depicted in some of the surveillance photographs in that news report,” according to an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Kevin Coughlin.
Considine allegedly copped to those robberies to the relative in a chat they had this past Thursday, Coughlin wrote.
The family member also gave investigators Considine’s mobile number, and authorities traced it to towers near HSBC Bank before and after the robbery, according the affidavit.
The HSBC robber had slipped a teller a handwritten note that read, “This is a robbery,” and got away with $1,267.