A clueless criminal who spent 15 years behind bars for robbing a children 's shoe shore has admitted targeting the outlet again a day after his release ... and the same shop assistant was behind the counter . In 1999 , Christopher Miller - then 25 - was arrested after he forced employees into the back room of the Stride Rite shoe store in New Jersey in the U.S. , tied them up and fled with cash . After serving a 15-year sentence , Miller was released from South Woods State Prison in March last year . Clueless criminal : Christopher Miller ( pictured in 1999 , left , and more recently , right ) robbed the same store twice . Police said Miller , then 40 , entered the store at about 4.20pm the following day and demanded cash , telling the workers - a 17-year-old boy and 43-year-old woman - to go to the back room . He was not believed to be armed and the workers refused to follow his orders . He became agitated , according to police , and took the cash register drawer , which contained $ 389 ( £260 ) . He then took the workers ' mobile phones and the store phone , and fled on foot . Police said they found Miller a few blocks away , with the cash stashed in a gutter and the phones in a garbage can . The clerk had been notified about Miller 's release and identified the suspect as the same person who had robbed the store in 1999 . At the time , Toms River Police Chief Mitchell Little said he wondered whether Miller considers prison his home . Shoe store : The shop assistant had been notified about Miller 's release and identified the suspect as the same person who had robbed the store in 1999 . 'Maybe that 's the only life he knows , and the only thing he could think of was going back to the same store and doing the same crime again - getting caught and going back where he was taken care of and told what to do and getting meals and shelter and everything else , ' he said . Miller was charged with robbery - again - and was held on $ 100,000 ( £668,000 ) bail . On Monday , he pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery . He faces a prison term of between 10 and 20 years when he is sentenced in May . In 1999 , Miller was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a total of three armed robberies in New Jersey , as well as theft , criminal restraint and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes .
MillerChristopher Miller , 41 , has admitted robbing the same U.S. shoe store twice . In 1999 , he was arrested after tying up the workers and fleeing with cash . After serving a 15-year sentence he returned to the store just one day later . He demanded cash and took the cash register drawer containing just £260 . Clerk identified Christopher Miller as the same person who robbed the store previously .