A 29-year-old Jersey City man was arrested early Thursday morning after police caught him behind the counter of a Hoboken eatery with a computer tablet in hand, authorities said.

Franklin Quintanilla was charged with burglary, theft, hindering, and certain persons not to have weapons after police interrupted the commercial burglary on the 100-block of Washington Street at around 3:15 a.m., Hoboken police Sgt. Joseph Leonard said.

When officers arrived at HoneyGrow, a salad and stir fry eatery near Second Street, they found the basement hatch open and saw Quintanilla behind the counter with the tablet. He claimed to be an employee and that the device was his, but when the manager confirmed he did not work there and that the tablet belonged to the business, Quintanilla was arrested, Leonard said.

Quintanilla was also found to be in possession of a box cutter. He was processed and released with a court date, Leonard added.