GUILDERLAND — A distinctive sweatshirt led to a second arrest for a parolee who walked away from a drug treatment program and then stole a truck before going to Crossgates Mall and stealing a store’s cash deposit, Guilderland Police say.

Robert T. Rivera, 46, of 74 Ferry St., first floor, Troy, was arrested on Friday, Dec. 22, for third-degree grand larceny and fourth-degree grand larceny, both felonies, and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, a misdemeanor, according to a release from the police.

Police say that a person matching Rivera’s description, wearing an Averill Park Softball hooded sweatshirt, was spotted on Dec. 22 in the Capitol Lodge parking lot on Western Avenue, where a 2005 Dodge pickup truck was reported stolen.

Later that day, Guilderland Police received a call from a store in the mall that Rivera was in their custody after he had stolen the store’s cash deposit, the release says. After police took Rivera into custody, they say he admitted to stealing the deposit and he was taken to the Guilderland Police station for further investigation.

Once at the station, Rivera then admitted that he used stolen money to buy the North Face jacket he was wearing, and, when Rivera took off the coat, police say they discovered that he was wearing an Averill Park Softball hooded sweatshirt, described by a witness at Capitol Lodge.

Police discovered keys to the 2005 Dodge pickup truck in Rivera’s possession and he admitted to police that he stole the truck earlier that day, and that he used money from the truck’s glove compartment to buy the coat, according to the release.

Rivera was arraigned by a Guilderland Town Judge John Bailey who remanded him to Albany County’s jail without bail, police say.

The release also says that Rivera in on parole for a drug offense until 2009.