Robber Revived By NYPD Arrested Again On UES, Police Say

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A thief who was given a second chance at life after being revived by a police officer on the Upper East Side has allegedly gone back to his criminal ways, police said.

Police from the NYPD's 19th Precinct arrested a man this week for assaulting a worker at a neighborhood Duane Reade while attempting to steal five cases of beer, according to a tweet sent out by the precinct commander. The suspect is the same man who went into cardiac arrest after allegedly robbing a CVS in September, police said.

The return to crime after the near-death experience has the 19th Precinct using the "shrug" emoji.

"So much for second chances," the precinct's commander wrote in a tweet.

Sergeant James Gebhard of the 19th Precinct was honored earlier this month for reviving the drugstore robber near East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue in late September.

Gebhard was responding to the scene of the robbery on the night of Sept. 30 when a store employee flagged him down and told him that the alleged thief had fled the scene heading up Lexington Avenue. A few blocks later, the sergeant found the suspect's lifeless body, he told CBS2 News.

"He was absolutely dead when I arrived," Gebhard told the news station.