A Jersey City man who was issued a summons on Monday for trying to steal bikes at a PATH station was arrested for again trying to swipe bicycles from the same spot 24 hours later, authorities said.

Sacoo R. Mack, 28, who has at least five convictions going back to 2009, was charged with resisting arrest and theft by unlawful taking.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday Port Authority police responded to a report of a man attempting to steal bicycles from a rack at the Journal Square PATH Station adjacent to Starbucks, Port Authority police spokesman Joe Pentangelo said.

Police saw Mack trying steal the bikes and when he saw police, he walked toward Kennedy Boulevard, where he was seen trying to steal another bicycle, Pentangelo said. Mack fled when confronted by officers, but he was caught a short distance away.

After a brief struggle, Mack was arrested and police then found that he had also been issued a summons attempting to steal a bike a day earlier, Pentangelo said.

Man charged with trying to steal bikes from PATH station, again: police A Jersey City man seen trying to steal a bicycle from the Journal Square PATH Station was arrested 10 days, not far away from the scene of the crime, police said.

According to the state Department of Corrections, Mack served 18 months from June 2015 to April 2017 for criminal trespass.

Over the past eight years he has also been charged with burglary, weapons possession, robbery and terroristic threats and he has at least five convictions, according to electronic court records.