GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man who allegedly ran a multi-state Craigslist scam involving money taken from teens as they interviewed for a babysitting job faces charges in West Michigan after being released from prison in Indiana.

Randy Andre Hatter, 33, is charged in Kent County with using a computer to commit a crime and obtaining money under false pretenses. He was released Wednesday from the Kent County Jail on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.

Indiana state records show Hatter was sentenced to prison in that state in November 2009 for receiving stolen property in Allen County. He was arrested in Fort Wayne, Ind., as part of a sting operation in which female officers posed as respondents to his employment ads on Craigslist.

Hatter, originally from Flint, allegedly posted Craigslist advertisements looking for candidates to babysit his 3-year-old daughter. He would meet candidates at coffee shops, authorities said, and then ask for $20 for a background check. The candidates, afterwards, would never see him again.

In the Grand Rapids scam, police were able to find the then 30-year-old Hatter in part because they had video of him from surveillance cameras at places where he met prospective baby sitters.

Police in 2009 said Hatter likely took money from more than a dozen West Michigan women, who also gave him their confidential information.

Authorities were investigating similar scams they thought may have been connected to Hatter in Illinois, Ohio and Tennessee, media outlets in other states reported.