Offender who went viral after judge recognized him from school is back in prison on similar charges

An offender who made headlines in 2015 after a Florida judge recognized him from middle school and wished him to “live a law-abiding life” has just landed back in prison on similar charges.

Arthur Nathaniel Booth, 58, was arrested last week in connection with a series of suspected jewelry thefts in Miami that occurred earlier this month. In one of those thefts, he allegedly ripped a woman's Gucci necklace from her neck, Miami police said.

In one of these violent crimes, Booth allegedly posed as a plumber and forcibly gained entry to the apartment of a 78-year-old man, Local10 reported, citing a police report.

He allegedly “violently ripped the victim's $1,500 gold chain from her neck,” pushed her and then fled the house, police said.

Booth later posed as a water inspector to gain access to another victim's home, where he allegedly stole a jewelry box.

According to police, he also targeted a woman who was changing a tire on the side of the road by pretending to ask for directions.

When the woman turned her back to him during the incident, he is said to have grabbed her gold Gucci chain with several pendants and fled with it.

Booth was arrested on multiple counts of burglary with assault and robbery in a series of robberies after police identified and tracked him down using surveillance video.

The latest arrests came nearly a decade after Booth first made headlines when he was hauled before Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer on similar charges of burglary and grand theft.

He was filmed bursting into tears when the judge suddenly asked him if he had attended Nautilus Middle School at the time.

“Oh my goodness, oh my goodness,” Booth sobbed in the now viral clip.

“I'm sorry to see you here,” Glazer replied, adding, “I always wondered what happened to you, sir.”

Booth then broke down while the judge in the courtroom heaped a flood of compliments on him.

“He was the nicest boy in middle school. He was the best boy in middle school. I played football with him and all the other kids, and look what happened,” she said.

The judge then wished Booth good luck in setting bail and told him, “I hope you come out of this unscathed and can lead a law-abiding life.”

Following his recent arrest, the judge in that case ordered him to be held without bail at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.