A convicted murderer cut loose from Rikers Island amid the coronavirus outbreak in the jail was promptly rearrested for bank robbery, police sources said.
James Little, 40, was cut loose from the jail because of the coronavirus outbreak on March 28 after being locked up for strangulation earlier in the month, the sources said.
About a week later on the morning of April 7, Little allegedly tried to rob an Apple Bank on Irving Place in Gramarcy Park, police said.
He wore a face mask and gloves in the attempted heist and passed a note to a teller that read “give me money,” police said. He left empty handed.
Cops busted Little the next day — and have now linked him to two previous bank robberies, police sources said.
Investigators believe he knocked over two Midtown banks on Jan. 23 and Dec. 26, leaving with $1,000 in each robbery, police sources said.
Little served more than 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a murder committed in Coney Island when he was 15 years old, police sources said.
He was sentenced to seven years to life for the 1995 slaying and released on parole in 2016, the sources said.
