Darius McCollum — the notorious subway-train joyrider and bus thief — just can’t walk a straight line.
He’s back in prison.
McCollum was arrested last month on a parole violation and remains incarcerated on Rikers Island, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
A law enforcement source said McCollum, 49, was picked up in Queens and jailed for failing to meet with his parole officer. It was his second parole violation this year, authorities said.
“He just didn’t show up and was in the wind,” a law enforcement source said.
Now, an administrative law judge in Queens will decide McCollum’s fate. The judge could send McCollum — who is on parole for stealing a bus four years ago — back to state prison until August.
McCollum first made headlines in the 1980s when he was busted for operating an E train to the World Trade Center from 34th St. He was just 15 years old.
Since then, the transit-obsessed McCollum, who has been diagnosed as having Asperger’s syndrome, has been arrested approximately 30 times, often for impersonating a transit worker and trespassing on transit property. He’s been caught in uniform and with transit tools, including keys to a train.
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