Let’s say you wanted to spend your day stealing rolls of toilet paper. Where would you do it? Well, according to Ashtabula City Police, a city resident decided the municipal court, a place teeming with police officers, would be a good place to do it.

Elmer Bonds of Ashtabula, Ohio was arraigned Wednesday in Ashtabula Municipal Court for allegedly stealing toilet paper rolls from the men’s restroom at Ashtabula Municipal Court on a daily basis for the last few months.

Bonds pleaded not guilty to a charge of petty theft, a first-degree misdemeanor, during his arraignment.

“I ain’t gonna plead guilty to something I didn’t do,” Bonds said after his arraignment.

On Tuesday morning, Ashtabula Municipal Court bailiff Donald Rosetti allegedly saw Bonds on his knees taking a toilet paper roll off a dispenser, said Ashtabula Police Captain Phil Varckette.

Acting Captain Gerald Cornelius arrested Bonds at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Varckette said. Bonds spent the night in jail.

But Bonds said after his arraignment that he wasn’t stealing the toilet paper when he was arrested.

“It looked like I was. I was picking it up off the floor,” Bonds said.

Bonds was released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond on the condition that he not enter the municipal building, said Municipal Clerk of Courts Janis Crowell.

Rosetti said he often saw Bonds in the building when he was not scheduled for any hearings.

Varckette said that Bonds would steal rolls of toilet paper nearly every day. He estimated that Bonds stole more than 100 rolls over the past few months. Varckette said Bonds would steal all of the toilet paper in the bathroom on any given day. He said the situation became annoying for the custodian who was constantly replacing the toilet paper.