A Pentagon official has agreed to a plea deal with Washington, D.C., prosecutors after he was charged with three counts of misdemeanor theft for repeatedly stealing license plates from a car in his Capitol Hill neighborhood as a result of a parking dispute.

On April 4, Bryan Whitman, the principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, left an anonymous note on the windshield of the sport utility vehicle that belongs to the nanny of a neighbor who lives around the block from him, according to a Wednesday report by the Washington Post.