An Arizona judge sentenced a 49-year-old Phoenix man to more than three years in state prison last week for theft and trafficking of bicycles stolen from ASU’s Tempe campus, ASU Police Cmdr. Jim Hardina said on Monday.

Donald George Candea was arrested on Feb. 26 after ASU student James Weiser located his own stolen bike on Craiglist and helped to thwart a trafficking operation on campus.

Weiser was not available to comment.

ASU Police learned that Candea had sold the bike to a pawnshop in Phoenix. Officials were able to arrange a meeting with the man and later arrested him, Hardina said.

Candea took a plea bargain on two charges, one count of criminal theft and one of trafficking stolen property.

He has an extensive criminal history involving other types of theft, Hardina said.

The ASU Police department is continuing to pursue other bicycle-theft suspects. Bicycle theft remains the most common crime on campus, with numbers rising steadily since the spring 2008 semester.

Two days before Candea was arrested in February, ASU Police arrested 35-year-old Andrew Hughes for bicycle theft using a decoy bicycle.