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He’s been bus-ted again.

A Staten Island man was arrested Friday for jumping onto an empty city bus parked at the St. George Ferry Terminal and taking it on a joyride, police report.

It’s the second time Nickolas Ellias has been charged with stealing a bus. In June 2014 he also drove off in a bus at the transit terminal, later pleading guilty to fourth-degree grand larceny.

In his latest caper, Ellias got behind the wheel at about 2:20 a.m. and drove four miles before he was captured at Port Richmond Avenue and Church Street.

This time he was charged with grand larceny and criminal mischief.

He may have been channeling Darius McCollum, the city’s most famous transit thief and the star of “Off the Rails,” a new documentary about his illegal adventures with MTA subways and buses

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