Mugshots show Robert Hardister’s dramatic face transformation
THIS repeat offender’s mugshots reveal how his face tattoos have evolved over his eight-year crime spree.
Robert Hardister, from Stuart, Florida, has been arrested plenty of times — but police still have trouble keeping up with his ever-changing appearance.
The 25-year-old is behind bars yet again — this time for allegedly dealing drugs out of a stolen car in Florida.
The Sun reports he was handcuffed on Sunday by an officer conducting a routine patrol in the St Augustine neighbourhood.
His latest mugshot shows the tattooed criminal with a newly pierced eyebrow and darker hair.
Last year, he was caught sleeping in a stolen truck in a WalMart car park.
Hardister told cops he didn’t know the truck was stolen, but he was still charged with vehicle theft.
He 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 $A26, Palm Beach Post reported.
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 snap would boast a brand new tattoo — but his latest one shows there is little room for anymore work.
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 was booked into the St Johns County Sheriff’s Office Inmate Facility on no bond.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and was republished with permission.
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Originally published as Mugshots show crim’s transformation
