A Counter Staff employee selects a doughnut with sprinkles for a customer order on National Doughnut Day at Tim Horton's in Malewood, Missouri on June 2, 2017.On Thursday, a North Carolina man who had previously won a donut-eating contest was arrested for breaking into a donut shop. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
Police said Hardison broke into the store's safe and took an undisclosed amount of money.
He was held in jail under a $7,000 bond.
This isn't the first time Hardison has been connected to doughnuts and crime. In fact, it was his doughnut-eating prowess that helped police arrest him during a previous run-in with the law.
In 2014, Hardison entered a doughnut-eating contest sponsored by the Elizabeth City Police Department and won after he gobbled down eight in two minutes. Turned out, police had been looking for Hardison for nine months in relation to several car break-ins.
So once they realized the contest winner was also a suspect, Hardison was arrested the next day.
