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Investigators said Ronald Tackman was arrested Thursday night while stepping off a bus in Washington Heights.

Tackman was last seen Wednesday at Manhattan Supreme Court where he was scheduled to attend a pretrial hearing on multiple charges of armed robbery in Manhattan and Queens.

While in the custody of corrections officers, Tackman was left unshackled.

Dressed in a business suit, he apparently made his way to a holding area for prisoners and convinced a court officer he was an attorney. The officer let him into a public area of the building and he calmly strolled out the front door.

His attorney, Joseph Heinzmann, said his client wanted to go to trial but likely panicked due to the possibility of spending life in prison.

Tackman's mother told NY1 Wednesday that her son returned to her Upper East Side home to change, and managed to flee again before police showed up.

"He came home and he was all dressed up and I figured that he was discharged from prison," said his mother Gene Devine. "So I didn't say anything and he asked me to change his clothes and that was it."

The city jails commissioner has called for a thorough review of security procedures.