A homeless man accused of stealing the wallet and wedding ring off MAX stabbing victim Ricky Best apparently moments after Best died pleaded guilty Monday to four crimes and is expected to be sentenced to 13 months in prison next week.

George Elwood Tschaggeny, 51, pleaded guilty to first-degree theft, tampering with physical evidence and two counts of identity theft for his crimes on May 26, as Best lay motionless at the Hollywood MAX station.

His plea agreement calls for the prison time and then after his release, five years under the watch of a drug treatment court called START. The court requires participants to check-in regularly. The court typically orders counseling and substance abuse treatment.

Tschaggeny had been scheduled to go to trial next week, before he entered his new pleas.

Prosecutors allege Tschaggeny used Best’s credit cards five times on the day of the theft.

Police say Tschaggeny was caught on TriMet surveillance video leaving the crime scene with two bags. Police say that was minutes after Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, stabbed Best and two other men in the neck during a racist, Islamophobic rant as the MAX train pulled up to the Hollywood stop.

Best, 53, and Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, died. Another man, Micah Fletcher survived.

Christian has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges. Christian is scheduled to appear in court next week for a hearing about the conditions of his incarceration, which include being held in jail without the chance of being released on bail.

-- Aimee Green