Serial offender’s EIGHT mugshots reveal how he’s progressively covered his face with tattoos over his seven-year crime spree
The 25-year-old's latest mugshot shows there's no more room on his face for a new tattoo
THIS repeat offender’s mugshots reveal how his face tattoos have evolved over his seven-year crime spree.
Robert Hardister, from Stuart, Florida, US, has been arrested plenty of times - but police still have trouble keeping up with his ever-changing face.
One of his earliest mugshots, in 2009 when he was just 18, shows a fresh-faced Hardister with floppy hair and not an ink in sight.
But after being arrested multiple times over the years, each mugshot would boast a brand new tattoo.
His latest snap shows there is little room for anymore work.
The 25-year-old is behind bars yet again - this time police found him asleep in a stolen truck in a WalMart car park on Friday morning.
reported Hardister told police he’d actually borrowed the 1998 black Ford F-150 from a friend to move furniture to his new apartment and had even paid him $20 (£15).
Hardister said he didn’t know the truck was stolen, but police still charged him with vehicle theft.
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In the past, he has pleaded guilty to a few theft charges and spent time in jail, court records show.
If photos from previous bookings in the Palm Beach County Jail are an indication, Hardister appears to have got most of the facial ink since February two years ago when he was arrested by Tequesta police for an out of town warrant.
In that mugshot, Hardister sports only a tear drop under his right eye and a tattoo on the right side of his neck.
Then, a year later when arrested on a fraud charge, Hardister had added a tattoo to the left side of his neck.
Hardister’s mugshot on February 17, 2013, after an arrest on several charges including burglary shows added artwork including a star under his right eye and lettering on his neck, left cheek and chin.
By the time Hardister was arrested in July for a probation violation, his face was almost entirely tatted up, leaving only a small area on the right side of his face without ink.
Hardister is being held in the jail on a $4,500 (£3,400) bond.
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