Mal Pauliet Tharjiath, 25, of Austin was charged with felony escape from custody on Wednesday in Mower County District Court.

According to the court report, the Minnesota Department of Corrections Intensive Supervised Release unit alerted Austin Police at 1:38 p.m. on Sept. 5 that Tharjiath, a felony parolee, had tampered with his GPS monitoring device. His last known location was the Austin Public Library.

Officers checked Tharjiath’s residence in the 700 block of Eighth Street Northeast and the residence of a relative, but did not find him at either.

Surveillance footage from the library allegedly showed Tharjiath getting a pair of scissors, returning them, and walking out the front door. A blue jacket Tharjiath was seen wearing in the video was found in the southwest corner of the library parking lot. Library staff located the GPS device in the children’s book area.

Tharjiath was apprehended and arrested by the Department of Corrections fugitive task force at a residence in the 1100 block of Fourth Avenue Northwest.

Tharjiath is awaiting trial in Mower County for a Feb. 17 escape attempt. In that incident, Tharjiath allegedly removed another GPS monitoring device that was placed on him in January after his release from the Minnesota Department of Corrections-Stillwater, where he was serving an 18-month sentence for failing to register as a predatory offender.