A New York City man stole $12,000 worth of coronavirus stimulus checks from mailboxes, cops say.

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·         Feng Chen, a 31-year-old New York man, was arrested Tuesday and charged with theft for allegedly taking stimulus checks from mailboxes.

·         Police say they found him searching through mailboxes in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. 

·         When he was arrested, Chen was carrying stimulus payments "totaling more than $12,000, credit cards, opened envelopes and letters bearing the names of various individuals and mail addresses," police said.