‘Banking’ on GPS

Hidden device in rob loot leads to suspect

A Manhattan bank robber made off with tens of thousands of dollars from a heist Friday — but cops tracked him down using a GPS device planted with the loot Friday, police sources said.

Duane Edward Moore, 58, was wearing a mask when he strolled into M&T Bank on Second Avenue and East 54th Street at 10:20 a.m., claimed to have a gun and demanded that a teller fill his gym bag with cash, police sources said.

“Don’t say anything. Give me the money!” he shouted, according to a police source.

A teller grabbed $41,000 from a vault and stuffed it into the bag — along with the tracking device, police source said.

The bandit bolted to the Lexington and 59th Street subway station, where he hopped on a 4, 5 or 6 train and rode it six stops uptown, police sources said. But he had no clue that cops were tracking his getaway in real time via GPS, police sources said.

Moore learned the heist was a lost cause when he climbed the stairs of the 116th Street Station toward Park Avenue an hour later — and was busted by cops nearby (pictured), sources said.

“He looked at us, we looked at him and we knew it was him,” said Inspector Joseph Courtesis, commanding officer of the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center.

Police then searched the crook and found a .45 caliber handgun, police sources said.

Moore is now being “looked at” in connection to three other bank robberies in the city, including two on the Upper East Side and one in Queens, according to Deputy Inspector Joseph Kersting, commanding officer of the department’s Major Case Squad.

Cops were “in constant contact” over the suspect’s movements, he added.

They declined to go into more detail about how the GPS device worked.

Cops are reviewing surveillance footage to determine if Moore used the gun during robbery, a police source said.

Workers at M&T Bank declined to comment.