Bus thief not mentally ill, court rules

A TRANSIT buff who has been arrested more than 30 times for stealing trains and buses was found not to be mentally ill or a danger to society, prosecutors revealed Friday.

Darius McCollum, 52, was evaluated by psychiatrists after he took a plea deal that spared him a state prison stint for stealing an empty Greyhound bus in Hoboken, N.J., on Nov. 8, 2015.

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Shillingford is expected to render a sentencing after evaluating the doctors’ 89-page report as well as the findings from the prosecutors’ psychiatrists.

McCollum (photo) has been remanded to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Wards Island.

The serial transit bandit had admitted to posing as a U.S. Homeland Security Department officer to fool Greyhound employees into giving him a bus. He took it on a joyride through Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.