A good Samaritan called San Francisco cops when she overheard a man on Muni talk about how he had just stolen a cellphone.

That led to the arrest of the 20-year-old man Wednesday night.

The incident was reported around 9:40 p.m. in the area of Stonestown Galleria Mall.

The crook snatched an iPhone from a 24-year-old woman who was sitting on a bench, police said.

When an unidentified citizen heard him talking on a bus about the theft, she called police, who arrested the man. The victim was later identified in a cold show and booked for the theft, police said.

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