Crime changes people in ways they never imagine it would.
Mugshots of a repeat offender reveal has recently revealed how his facial tatoos have evolved over high eight-year crime spree.
Robert Hardister, from Stuart, Fla., has been arrested plenty of times, still give the police trouble with his identification due to his ever changing appearance, New York Post reports.
The 25-year-old is behind bars yet again, this time for allegedly dealing drugs out of a stolen car in Florida.
He was handcuffed on Sunday by an officer conducting a routine patrol in the St. Augustine neighborhood.
His latest mugshot shows the tattooed criminal with a newly pierced eyebrow and darker hair.
One of his earliest mugshots in 2009, when he was just 18, shows a fresh-faced Hardister with floppy hair and no ink in sight.
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 any more 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 gotten 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 teardrop 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 Feb. 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. John’s County Sheriff’s Office Inmate Facility on no bond.