A 55-year-old man was arrested after a Madison man saw the man wearing the victim's backpack.
Casimir Brandon was arrested on charges of receiving stolen property, according to the police incident report.
The victim told police his backpack was stolen from his car after someone smashed one of the windows with a rock.
""The officer recognized the suspect as a man he had seen earlier looking through garbage cans on West Gorham Street,"" Madison police spokesperson Joel DeSpain said.
The suspects removed the backpack from his shoulders. The 21-year-old then looked through the backpack and saw his textbook and many personal items were still there.
Additional papers belonging to the victim were found in a trash can across the street, police said.
The suspect told police he did not break into the car and just found the backpack.
