A newspaper editor from Snohomish County has been arrested for shoplifting after allegedly stealing a cart full of groceries and attempting to take a second.

Kevin Hulten, 38, who edits the Statesman-Examiner in Colville, is accused of a series of thefts from the town's Super 1 store from March 15-25.

Hulten, who had previously been fined $2,500 after a political scandal last year, was spotted on security camera looking 'nervous' prior to his thefts, police told the Spokesman-Review.

Charged: Kevin Hulten (pictured), 38, an editor at the Statesman-Examiner newspaper in Colville, Snohomish County, has been charged with shoplifting a total of $112 in goods

Filmed: Cops say CCTV caught Hulten walking out with flowers and a cart full of goods in mid-March. He was caught with a second cart and made to pay for it on March 25

Video shows Hulten leaving on March 15 with a bunch of flowers without paying for them, police said.

The next day he was allegedly recorded walking out with a shopping cart full of unpurchased groceries.

And on March 25, a store manager claims to have spotted him trying to leave with a second cart.

The manager says he persuaded Hulten to pay for those items, but the editor did not tell him about a $2 can of Red Bull he'd already drunk in an aisle.

Colville police identified Hulten through a card that he had used to buy prescriptions at the store's pharmacy. In total, they say, he stole $112 in items.

In one 'shopping trip' Hulten pretended to rent a DVD at a Redbox vending machine to throw two witnesses off his trail, police said.

He has been charged with three counts of third-degree theft, a gross misdemeanor, and one count of attempted third-degree theft, a misdemeanor.

Gross misdemeanors carry a maximum sentence of a year in jail and a $5,000 degree fine; misdemeanors carry a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

This is not the first time that Hulten has run afoul of the law.

In 2014, while working as an aide to Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, he used his work computer to make records requests targeting political rivals.

He later pleaded guilty to trying to hide his trail by using computer programs.

He was sentenced to five days on a work crew for that gross misdemeanor; he was also fined $2,500 by the Public Disclosure commission.