BRADENTON -- A 39-year-old man was arrested Thursday after he tried to rob two men in a motel room, dropping his gun and later returning to buy back his own firearm, Bradenton police said.

At about midnight, Cedrick Mitchell barged into a room at the Royal Motel in Bradenton. He asked the two men inside for pills.

When they said they had none, Mitchell pulled a handgun from his waistband and demanded “everything you got,” said Bradenton police Capt. Warren Merriman.

The men began to fight. During the scuffle, Mitchell dropped his gun and one of the victims pepper-sprayed him in the face.

Mitchell ran away. But moments later, he was back at the motel room and begged the two men to buy his gun back for $40, Merriman said.

Mitchell was pepper-sprayed in the face again and ran away.

The men called 911. One of the officers at the scene spotted Mitchell, who ran away again. Officers chased him and he was arrested, Merriman said.

Mitchell was booked into the Manatee County Jail and is being held on no bond. He was charged with armed home invasion and resisting an officer.

His criminal history includes robbery convictions in 2009 and 2001 in Sarasota County and convictions for battery and providing false information to an officer in 2009 in Manatee County, court records show.

In 2005, an undercover officer was purchasing rock cocaine when Mitchell reached into his front pocket, snatched $100, and walked away, Manatee court records show. He plead no contest in 2006 to a petit theft charge.