A man suspected of dozens of burglaries, dubbed the “dinnertime bandit,” has been extradited to the United States, after nine years of hiding from authorities.

Alan W. Golder, 52, was arrested in Antwerp, Belgium last December. He was extradited Wednesday and taken to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was arrested on a 1998 warrant in connection with a multitude of residential burglaries throughout the 1990s, police said.

The Associated Press reports that Greenwich police obtained a warrant in 1998 charging Golder in 16 burglaries amounting to nearly $1 million in stolen items from September 1996 to October 1997. He is charged with burglary, larceny, and first-degree kidnapping.

He was dubbed the “dinnertime bandit” because he would break into the houses in the early evening, sometimes while residents were home eating dinner, reports the AP. According to the Greenwich Time’s website, at least two victims saw Golder while he was in their homes: a child and a woman whom the burglar immobilized with her husband’s neckties, thus acquiring a kidnapping charge against him.

Police Chief David Ridberg said Wednesday that Golder was held on $250,000 bond and scheduled to appear Friday in Stamford Superior Court.

Authorities have said Golder is also a suspect in 50 burglaries in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, totaling nearly $5 million in stolen jewelry.

Greenwich's warrant charges Golder with one-count of first-degree kidnapping, 15 counts of second-degree burglary, seven counts of criminal attempt at first-degree burglary, 13 counts of first-degree larceny, two counts of second-degree larceny, and one count each of fifth-degree larceny and third-degree burglary, per the Greenwich Time.

Golder’s disappearance was featured regularly on television shows “America's Most Wanted” and “Unsolved Mysteries.” There had been unsubstantiated sightings reported in Georgia and Florida. He was arrested by Belgian police on Dec. 14 in an unrelated crime. His fingerprints matched those of the “dinnertime bandit.”