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By Will Bredderman
Brooklyn Daily
Police busted a man they say burglarized four Bay Ridge businesses in an 11-day blotter-dominating reign of terror.
Cops picked up 49-year-old Robert Attianese on May 15 and charged him with ripping off a bar on Fifth Avenue between 89th and 90 streets on May 2, a chain pretzel bakery on 86th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues on May 8, a laundromat on Fifth Avenue between 83rd and 84th streets on May 9, and a restaurant on Fifth Avenue between 91st and 92nd streets on May 13.
Cops said Attianese has an extensive criminal record. He was first arrested in 1982, and most recently in 2008.
“His record’s as long as my arm,” a police insider said. “It looks like he’s been arrested every year of his life since he was 19.”
If convicted, Attianese could face seven years in prison on each charge, or 28 years altogether.
Attianese’s attorney, Adam Lubow, did not responded to repeated calls for comment.
Attianese is the second man Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct has arrested on burglary charges in recent weeks. Cops took a 42-year-old into custody on May 3 for allegedly looting five apartments along Ovington Avenue in late April.
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