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A bank robber released on parole in January held up another bank last week in Manhattan, police said.

Fernando Rios, 46, walked into an Upper West Side CitiBank on Feb. 27 and passed a teller a note that threatened, “This is a bank robbery. If you move, I will shoot you,” according to a criminal complaint.

“Don’t move, I’m going to shoot,” Rios then allegedly told the bank teller.

The suspect took one hand and allegedly placed it inside the front pocket of his sweatshirt, causing the teller to think he was carrying a firearm, the filing adds.

Rios, who has a whooping 76 prior arrests going back to 1993, had just done a year in prison on a bank-robbery rap. He has been arrested and charged with robbing six banks in all since 2017, a police source said.

Cops busted him on the most recent one near Central Park after the teller identified him in person, cops said.

He was held on $15,000 bail and sent to Rikers Island jail. 

On July 15, 2022, Rios was also arrested and charged with a bank robbery at an Apple Bank at 74 Grant Circle in the Bronx, cops said.

“This is a robbery,” read the note he handed the teller that time. “I have a gun.”

Rios went to jail in Dec. 2023. He was paroled on Jan. 8, prison records show.

Rios also went to prison in February 2018 on a third-degree rape and robbery charge and was released in June 2022, a month before the July robbery, records show. He was charged with raping a minor relative in the Bronx, cops said.

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