D.C. Superior Court sentenced a 49-year-old District resident to eight years behind bars Friday for a handful of burglaries across the city over the last two years.

Christopher Sebastian King – who pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree burglary and one count of first-degree theft in October – routinely disguised himself as a worker to access hospital and university buildings and steal property, according to a release from the Department of Justice.

He was suspected of stealing from GW up to four times, University Police Chief Kevin Hay said.

King was found with a stolen radio, the property of GW’s Facilities Services, while searching Marvin Center offices for unattended electronics and other items the morning of May 31. He used the radio “as a prop to look official,” Hay said. King attempted to steal a green pocketbook from an office that day and was potentially responsible for two other campus thefts.

UPD shared lookout information for King with the Metropolitan Police Department and Georgetown University’s police department. Georgetown University Police caught King in mid-August, after he snatched a briefcase from under a chair and fled the scene.

Disguised as a construction worker wearing a hard hat, King stole a doctor’s laptop at Children’s National Medical Center in July 2010, according to the release. On Christmas Day that year, he took a visitor’s book bag, carrying an iPod and credit card, while holding a gift package and pretending to visit a patient.

Hay credited UPD investigators Jason Engel and Matthew Robinson for their work on the case.