A Nesquehoning man who damaged a vehicle at a train station last month was jailed again after stealing a sport utility vehicle in Franklin Township on July 2 and then attempting take a train in Nesquehoning an hour later.

Michael McFadden, 38, was arraigned by District Judge Beth Dodson on July 3 on charges of theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and driving with a suspended or revoked license in the Franklin Township case.

She also arraigned him on charges of defiant trespass, disrupting the operation of a train, criminal attempt-stowaways prohibited, criminal attempt-theft by unlawful taking, and four counts of criminal-escape in the Reading & Northern Railroad case.

Bail was set at $100,000 in each case.

On Wednesday, McFadden waived charges in the railroad case to Carbon County Court of Common Pleas and he is still awaiting a preliminary hearing before Judge William Kissner on the Franklin Township incident, which is scheduled for July 15.

According to the arrest papers, an employee at P.J. Whelihan’s on Harrity Road in Franklin Township discovered his vehicle was missing from the parking lot at the end of his shift on July 2 at 9:22 p.m.

The employee reported the 2013 white Ford Explorer stolen and viewed video surveillance footage showing a white man with multiple tattoos wearing only pants without a shirt or shoes walking in the employee parking area attempting to open car doors, court papers said.

The man reached the Explorer in the footage, entered the SUV and headed toward Interchange Road, court papers said.

Earlier that evening, Franklin Township police responded to a welfare check at St. Luke’s Hospital, Carbon Campus, at 6:01 p.m.

Staff reported McFadden had left the hospital and described him as a white man wearing only pants, with no shirt or shoes and having multiple tattoos, court papers said.

Police did not make contact with McFadden at that time, but Reading & Northern Railroad police did an hour later at the railroad’s Nesquehoning Campus.

Railroad officers provided photographs of McFadden, showing him wearing pants, but no shirt and having multiple tattoos.

According to the second criminal complaint, railroad police were notified by a train engineer of a trespasser on the “1776” locomotive on July 2 at 7:05 p.m.

The engineer saw a man with no shirt on the tracks, and the man, later identified as McFadden, jumped onto the “1776” locomotive.

The engineer locked the front door of the control cab, and McFadden swung into the side window and sat in the engineer’s seat, court papers said.

McFadden was grabbing at the throttle and controls of the locomotive, attempting to get it to move, and the engineer set the emergency brake to prevent it from moving, court papers said.

McFadden was incoherently mumbling gibberish and asking how to get the locomotive to move. The engineer called for emergency help over the train radio.

McFadden then jumped to the edge of the engineer cab window and dropped to the ground on the railroad right of way, court papers said. He then ran down the street to where a railroad officer was directing traffic.

While in custody, McFadden stood up from a chair in an attempt to escape the room and custody four times, and officers had to take control of McFadden.

The stolen vehicle was eventually located in the St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church cemetery on the eastern end of town and towed from the scene.

McFadden was charged in another incident in June at the railroad’s Nesquehoning Campus, where he broke into and damaged an employee’s truck, telling railroad police he needed to see his wife and kids, according to court papers.

He was initially jailed on charges of criminal mischief, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, as well as theft and escape, but then released on unsecured bail at the preliminary hearing, when those charges were waived to county court.