A wheelchair-bound bandit copped a plea Tuesday to rolling up to unsuspecting women at high-end hotels and restaurants like celebrity hotspot Nobu and swiping their purses.
In all the incidents, Matias Moreno-Boza, 25, wheeled himself up to the victims, snatched their bags then wheeled himself out of sight, cops said.
The disabled thief pleaded guilty to grand larceny, forgery and identity theft before Justice Maxwell Wiley in Manhattan Supreme Court, in exchange for a year in jail.
Moreno-Boza began his purse-snatching spree at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway where he pretended to be a guest last August. He rolled up on a woman checking in at the front desk and plucked her pocketbook, cops said.
The crook was at it again on Aug. 30 at the swanky restaurant Nobu 57 on West 57th Street. He rolled over to a female diner and purloined her leather Coach satchel.
A few days later he struck again, stealing a 40-year-old woman’s purse from Havana Central in Hell’s Kitchen.
The bandit next hit Chelsea tapas bar Txilkito and pinched a 35-year-old woman’s Gucci bag from the back of her chair, cops said.
He used the pilfered plastic to do a little shopping at the Hugo Boss in Columbus Circle.
Moreno-Boza became paralyzed after he was shot in the back in his native Peru. He will be deported to his home country after he serves his sentence, prosecutors said.
He is due back in court March 5 for sentencing.
Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast