BRADENTON, Fla. – Police believe a Florida man robbed a home in Manatee County before boarding a school bus Tuesday morning to flee the scene.

A shirtless Erik Hall, 27, got on the bus on 9th Avenue in Bradenton around 6:45 a.m. Tuesday morning with students waiting at the stop, and bus driver Verna Esparza thought he was a student and told him to put a shirt on, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.

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Hall initially ignored Esparza, and sat a few seats behind her, but eventually approached the driver and admitted he wasn’t a student and was simply looking for a ride home. When Esparza arrived at Manatee High School she waived down an administrator, who alerted Bradenton Police working as school resource officers, according to the Palm Beach Post.

“Hall was questioned by the Bradenton Police Department and released,” the Herald-Tribune reports. “The (police) report says it was later discovered that Hall was a suspect in a burglary that had occurred the same morning, in the same area Hall came from in north west Bradenton.”

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Police hunted Hall down at his home Wednesday and arrested him on charges of trespassing on school property. Officials told the media burglary charges are pending.

“It’s a big deal because you don’t know who the guy is,” Manatee High student Kimberly Rodriguez told WTSP. “You know he could have harmed a kid, he could have raped a kid, no one knows what could have happened.”

Hall has a lengthy criminal history with prior arrests for domestic battery, grand theft of a firearm, drug possession and burglary, according to the news site.

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“It’s very frightening that a criminal or someone who has been in trouble with the law has gotten on the bus with kids,” parent Alan Johnson, who lives near the bus stop, told WTSP.

Several folks online noted that Hall’s own admission did him in.

“This might have been the perfect get away plan had he kept his mouth shut and walked home from the high school,” Jason Golden posted to Facebook.

“Nobody ever said criminals were smart,” WTSP’s Sarah Hollenbeck responded.