A 19-year-old D.C. man was convicted today to 16 months in prison for breaking into a public charter school and stealing a number of laptops, a crime he was linked to because he was wearing a GPS monitor in the wake of a prior arrest. A press release from the U.S. Attorney for D.C. has the details, with emphasis added by us:

According to the government’s evidence, on Sept. 22, 2012, at about 11:40 p.m., the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) responded to the Options Public Charter School in the 1300 block of E Street NE for a report of an ongoing burglary. At the scene, the police set up a perimeter and observed Fields and two other suspects fleeing from one of the school’s buildings. The police pursued these individuals and caught up to them. The police canvassed the school area and recovered a backpack, with four laptops belonging to the school. The backpack was located where the police had observed Fields leaving the building.

Subsequent investigation revealed that Fields was on probation for a prior robbery conviction and that he was wearing a GPS monitoring device as part of his probation conditions. Tracking information showed that he was inside the school at the time of the reported burglary. A second defendant earlier pled guilty to charges in the case.

With the amount of times that this has happened, it must be a trend. And we’re OK with that.