T O L E D O, Ohio - David Dearing might be the running for Worst Grandson of the Year.

Police say that two hours after his grandmother picked him up from prison, he stole her car and sold the new clothes she'd given him in order to buy crack.

"It's a pretty nasty thing to do to a 77-year-old grandmother," said Det. Bob Schroeder. The grandmother had been sending Dearing money in prison, and drove her new 2001 Buick Century to get him from prison a week and a half ago, where he had completed his three-year sentence for armed robbery. She woke up at 4:30 a.m. to get her wayward grandson, and had to wait 90 minutes at the Lima Correctional Institution for him to be processed.

"She was the only family member who had anything to do with him," Schroeder remarked.

On the way home, she took him to McDonald's and gave him a set of new clothes, including a new leather jacket, Schroeder said. Then Dearing told her he wanted to go to the car to try on his clothing Instead, he drove off in her car, sold the jacket and other clothing and bought crack cocaine, Schroeder said.

The next day, he allegedly robbed a Toledo bank by handing a teller a note threatening to shoot her if she didn't give him money. Later the same morning, police say Dearing side-swiped another vehicle, blew out a tire, and got his grandmother's car stuck in the mud. When police approached the vehicle, they say the found him smoking a crack pipe and refusing to open the door.

In total, Dearing was free just 29 hours before he was arrested again. He was charged with aggravated robber, driving under suspension, and stealing his grandmother's Buick.

"I've never seen somebody go back in so fast," Schroeder said. "He didn't even go back home."

The grandmother got her car back, he noted, but it was a difficult ordeal for the septuagenarian. "I sent him money for food and toiletries [in prison] two times a month, and this is what I get?" she told the Toledo Blade, asking that her name not be published.

"I'm devastated. I prayed and prayed: Should I let him come back here? I guess this is God's answer."