The man who is charged with trying to break into London police headquarters Thursday is back in custody -- arrested twice by police in 15 hours.

The man who is charged with trying to break into London police headquarters Thursday is back in custody — arrested twice by police in 15 hours.

The 29-year-old Stratford man, arrested by officers after a failed break-in attempt at the Dundas Street headquarters around 1 a.m. Thursday, was taken back into custody after a break-in at a Talbot Street high-rise shortly before 4 p.m. that day.

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Police say a man was found hiding inside an apartment unit by the resident. The resident left the apartment and was with the property manager in the hallway when the man left the unit carrying several bags of property and waving a large knife.

Police arrived and made an arrest without incident.

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A man has been charged with breaking and entering, theft and assault with a weapon.

The same man has been charged with breaking and entering, possessing a weapon and two counts of mischief under $5,000 for the police station incident.

Earlier Thursday, police had said a man broke a window of a nearby store on Adelaide Street and hit the front door of a building on Dundas Street before attempting to break into the police station, police said.

The man hit a glass exit door on the north side police station with a bicycle chain, police said. He eventually broke the glass and attempted to enter the building.

Officers demanded the man drop the bicycle chain and when he refused, police Tasered him

Police estimated the damage to headquarters at $3,000.

A cellphone video obtained by The Free Press shows a shirtless, shoeless man being handcuffed by officers metres away from the smashed door.

Anyone with information about either incident is asked to call the London police at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).