MANHATTAN

*** A Bronx man was charged with attacking a statue inside an Upper East Side church, police sources said yesterday.

Witnesses spotted Jamie Tellechea, 46, allegedly defacing a statue of St. Jude inside the Church of St. Monica, on East 79th Street, at about 4 p.m. Friday, prompting a response from anti-crime cops assigned to the 19th Precinct.

The witnesses told police that Tellechea had removed a staff from the statue. He then allegedly used the staff to strike the statue repeatedly.

Tellechea, of East 141st Street, was picked up after a brief canvass near the church. He was charged with grand larceny, possession of stolen property and criminal mischief.

*** A man was arrested on assault charges yesterday for getting into a barroom brawl with another patron at a Lower East Side club, police said.

Peter O’Grady, 25, of East 39th Street, was charged with getting into a fught with a 20-year-old man at the Dark Room Bar, at 165 Ludlow St., at about 2:05 a.m. O’Grady allegedly punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall onto a table and cut his left elbow. The victim was taken to Cabrini Hospital in stable condition, police said.

BROOKLYN

*** Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of tens of thousands of dollars from the account of a customer of a Coney Island bank last spring, sources said yesterday.

Kyle Lynch, 19, and Netfer Lewis, 20, allegedly scammed more than $79,000 from a Washington Mutual branch, on West 17th Street, by making a series of unauthorized withdrawals between April 25 and May 18 from an account that was not their own. Both men were arrested on grand larceny charges yesterday.

Sources said the arrests were part of a continuing investigation that began last May when a teller was arrested for a scheme to steal more than $100,000 from the bank.

A Brooklyn man was charged with buying a MetroCard by opening up a credit-card account in the name of a Pennsylvania woman, sources said.

Andriy Babyk, 38, of East 13th Street, allegedly opened up a credit-card account in the name of a 61-year-old woman who lives in Stroudsburg, Pa., and made a MetroCard purchase on that phony account.

Babyk was arrested at 6 p.m. Wednesday on charges of identity theft, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after cops obtained a search warrant for his apartment.

The fraudulently obtained MetroCard was found in the suspect’s possession, and he later confessed to cops about using the victim’s credit card at various locations, sources said.

QUEENS

*** Two men who allegedly looted dozens of delis across the city by staging dramatic distractions were nabbed after being caught on camera hitting an Astoria business, police said yesterday.

Susanna Barron, 28, and Leandro Salazar, 27, both of Paterson, N.J., were charged with grand larceny by distraction for 24 thefts across Queens and Brooklyn, police sources said yesterday.

The Organized Theft Squad charged the duo on Friday after they were recognized through surveillance tapes distracting workers and looting the Astoria Deli Delights on 36th Avenue last Tuesday.

The pair allegedly had a scheme where one would distract workers with showy tantrums inside a store while the other removed cash – and sometimes whole registers – from behind store counters, police sources said.