HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) - A man convicted of sabotaging telephone cables in Fargo, N.D., a decade ago is back in jail, charged with stealing more than $10,000 in trailer parts.

Before leaving prison last year, Wade Duane Arvidson, 42, also known as Michael Damron, threatened to commit one "evil act" a month against the public.

Police arrested him Wednesday after a search uncovered more than $100,000 worth of suspected stolen property at his Eagan home.

Arvidson was charged Thursday with felony theft and possession of burglary tools. He was being held in lieu of $300,000 bail in the Dakota County Jail, and his next court appearance was scheduled for July 31.

Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said he plans to prosecute Arvidson as a career offender, which could result in a prison sentence of up to 10 years. Backstrom said Arvidson has been convicted of 10 theft-related crimes since 1986.

Arvidson's most infamous crime was Jan. 21, 1995, when he cut 19 thick underground phone cables so he could disable a Fargo electronics store's alarm system and rob it of $80,000 in equipment.

His actions left 20,000 people in North Dakota and northern Minnesota without phone service, and caused an estimated $1 million in damage.

Arvidson led authorities on a two-year manhunt that ended when the FBI captured him in 1996 at an Iowa motel. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and served more than eight years.

He was released last year, a few months after writing a letter to a Bismarck judge promising to commit one "evil act" against the public each month. After his release, he moved to Eagan to be near his mother and sister.

Eagan police investigating Arvidson for an unrelated property crime surreptitiously placed a tiny GPS tracking device on his motorcycle, Backstrom said. That allowed them to follow his movements July 1 as he traveled between his house, his sister's house and the lot of Absolute Trailer Sales in Inver Grove Heights.

The company later reported $10,000 in missing items. In the search of Arvidson's home, police found a number of items taken from Absolute Trailer Sales. They also found another $90,000 worth of construction tools, equipment and electronics that investigators believe were stolen. Backstrom said police were seeking the owners.

"Where we see a pattern, it's nice to use a GPS system," said Lt. Thomas Nelson, of the Inver Grove Heights police department. "They keep improving on them every year."