A self-described "romantic gentleman" landed in the clink on charges of swindling two of his Manhattan girlfriends, including one he may have fleeced for more than $400,000.
"He gets with women, dates them, and then he steals from them," said a law enforcement source.
In the latest case, detectives say Martin Berres, 62, shacked up with a 60-year-old woman in Chelsea and snatched a 7-carat diamond necklace from her earlier this month.
Berres describes himself as a "classy native New Yorker" on his MySpace page and has used Web dating to meet at least one of his alleged victims.
He is being probed for using the latest victim's identity to steal $360,000 from her bank accounts and credit cards.
Berres was busted shortly after he hawked the $50,000 set of baubles for $11,000 at a Midtown pawnbroker Nov. 10 and signed his own name to the forms.
He was booked Monday afternoon for grand larceny and is being held on $100,000 bail.
Berres boasts of being "in better shape and health than most men 1/3 my years," on MySpace.
"I am young in heart and looks," he writes. "Most people regard me as being charming, intelligent, witty, reasonably handsome, sexy, a good dresser, a fabulous cook and most of all, a gentleman."
He also writes that he is a divorced business owner looking for a woman who "is as much of an eternal optimist and a romantic as I am."
This past May, Berres was nabbed for allegedly stealing $10,000 from a girlfriend on the Upper East Side -- assuming her identity and withdrawing the cash from her Chase account.
The suspect met the woman on the Jewish dating site JDate and dated her for a few years on and off.
He was charged with harassing that woman -- calling her 50 times after they broke up. The disposition of that case was not known yesterday.
That victim said Berres, who had recently stayed at La Semana Hotel in Chelsea, blindsided her.
"He comes off like a very nice guy, working hard, made some mistakes in the past," she told The Post.
She said her experience should serve as a cautionary tale to people who date online.
"Check the people who you meet," she said.
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