PENN TWP — A con man who posed as a heart surgeon managed to eat three meals a day and play round after round of golf for nearly a week at Conley Resort, police said.

The alleged impersonator at checkout time signed for his $1,213 tab — which he billed to Butler Memorial Hospital.

But that suspected summer con job was not the first for 41-year-old Jeffrey Paul Cochran of Scottville, Mich. At last count, authorities said, it was at least the third time he’s pulled the same ruse.

Two months before visiting Conley, Cochran racked up a $16,000 bill at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Fayette County, according to court documents.

He also allegedly scammed a hotel in Nebraska out of more than $3,000 in free lodging.

District Judge Sue Haggerty on Friday arraigned Cochran on charges stemming from the suspected confidence game in Penn Township.

Meanwhile, Cochran remains in the Fayette County Jail, where’s he’s facing similar charges.

“It amazed me that he was able to do it for as long as he did,” said Penn Township Patrolman Jack Ripper. “But it eventually caught up to him.”

Police said Cochran stayed for free at Conley Resort on Route 8 from July 9 to 14. He pretended to be a doctor interviewing for the job of head of the cardiac unit at Butler Memorial.

Ripper, the investigating officer, said he did not know why the suspect picked Conley’s.

“I can’t find any link to him and Pennsylvania at all,” the officer said.

Cochran called the resort and identified himself as a hospital physician, “Dr. Anderson,” who was arranging accommodations for an out-of-town doctor, documents said.

Cochran then pretended to be that out-of-town doctor. A woman, apparently his then-girlfriend, checked him in, under the name “Dr. Jay Corhran,” police said.

During his six-night stay, Cochran, under his pseudonym, each day ate breakfast, lunch and dinner at Conley’s restaurant, and played golf. He signed for all of the charges, which were billed to Butler Memorial, investigators said.

At checkout, the defendant left. But before leaving, he advised that “Dr. Anderson” may be contacting Conley’s for a future reservation for him “if further (job) interviews were needed” according to a police affidavit.

Two days later Cochran, as his “Dr. Anderson” persona, called and spoke to the resort’s business manager and requested another reservation for “Dr. Corhran,” authorities said.

The supposed stay would be for three nights beginning July 28. “Dr. Anderson” then asked the business manager not to bill the hospital for “Dr. Corhran’s” earlier six-night stay until after his upcoming visit.

By the time Conley’s realized the hoax, Cochran was gone. However, Cochran’s luck soon ran out, investigators said.

State police in Uniontown on July 24 obtained an arrest warrant for him.

The warrant was for charges that he stayed at a $500-a-night room at the Nemacolin Woodlands pretending to be a heart surgeon and golf pro who was in town to interview for a job at a nearby hospital.

At the resort for two weeks, Cochran charged “multiple items to his house account from the golf shop, restaurants and the resort spa totaling over $16,000,” according to the criminal complaint filed by police.

He sneaked out a back door moments before Nemacolin employees unraveled the ruse. However, in his haste, he left behind personal identification, which led to his arrest, documents.

Police arrested Cochran in Michigan on Nov. 12 after he left from his mother’s funeral.

He was later extradited to Fayette County, where he’s been locked up since Thanksgiving Day on $150,000 bail. He’s awaiting a preliminary hearing there on Wednesday.

Authorities in Nebraska say he also is suspected there in connection to a similar fraud, allegedly staying at the Candlewood Suites in Lincoln for 47 days beginning Dec. 26, 2013, and racking up a $3,182 bill.

In Butler County, District Judge Sue Haggerty on Friday via Skype arraigned Cochran while in the Fayette County Jail.

He is charged here with forgery, a felony, and theft by deception, theft of services, false impersonation and identity theft. His preliminary hearing is pending at Haggerty’s office in Saxonburg.

At his arraignment, Cochran told Haggerty that he is the divorced father of four children, ages 2, 9, 10 and 14. He admitted he was unemployed before his arrest.

Court records showed he has several fraud arrests and convictions in Florida between 2005 and 2008.