The car was so nice, he stole it twice.

That’s what Fontana police are alleging about a Studio City man arrested last week behind the wheel of a $250,000 Ferrari that was reported stolen, found and impounded by police, then stolen again from the Fontana impound lot.

Earnie Steven Hooks, 39, was stopped at a DUI checkpoint Aug. 29 near Fontana’s Village of Heritage neighborhood, police said in a news release.

Officers discovered the vehicle – a black 2014 Ferrari 458 Spider, which Cars.com says has a 570-horsepower V-8 engine, gets 17 highway miles to the gallon and has a starting retail price of $257,412 – had been reported stolen.

Hooks fled from the checkpoint, and officers lost the Ferrari, but later found it abandoned in the area and impounded it, Fontana police spokeswoman Martha Guzman-Hurtado said.

But about 3 a.m. Aug. 30, Hooks broke into the impound lot and stole the car again, the news release said.

Five days later – Thursday, Sept. 4 – Fontana police detectives located Hooks driving the Ferrari in the area of Ventura Boulevard and Vineland Avenue in Studio City.

Fontana detectives declined to release additional details about the vehicle’s owner or what Hooks’ motive may have been, because the investigation is ongoing, Guzman-Hurtado said.

Hooks remains in jail at the West Valley Detention Center, with bail set at $5 million. He has been charged with two felony counts of vehicle theft and a misdemeanor count of obstructing or resisting police, according to online court records.

This isn’t the first time Hooks has been accused of stealing a car. He has an active case in San Bernardino County court in which he has pleaded not guilty to vehicle theft, receiving stolen property and driving under the influence of alcohol in December 2012.

And that case includes an enhancement that Hooks has a prior conviction for vehicle theft.