A Detroit Michigan man, who admitted to a sexual fetish for female shaped mamequins was sentenced to more than a year in prison after repeatedly breaking into storefront windows.

Ronald Dotson, 39, was sentenced to 18 months to 30 years on charges of breaking and entering, and being a habitual criminal.

He was arrested in October after police spotted him near a smashed storefront window in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. The storefront window contained a mannequin dressed in a french maid outfit.

His arrest came less than a week after he had been paroled for his sixth break and entering conviction in 13 years.

In some of the previous cases mannequins were involved. Apparently police once found him in an alley behind a womans clothing store with three mannequins dressed in lingerie.

“I’ve never been able to take care of myself,” Dotson told Judge Denise Langford Morris at sentencing.

Morris acknowledged that Dotson had never assaulted a person but said his behavior “strikes fear in the community.”

Tom Connolly, a 49-year-old lawyer from Scarborough, Maine, may give more thought to next year’s Halloween costume. He was arrested at gunpoint and charged with criminal threatening, after he stood at a highway construction site on Interstate 295 while wearing an Osama bin Laden costume and waving a sign.

When the police officers arrived after being alerted by motorists’ calls, they found a man wearing a white robe and plastic dynamite, grenades, and a replica of an A-K-47 assault rifle. South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins says “The whole thing is just incredibly bizarre, it just crossed the line.” Connolly, who was the Democratic nominee for governor of Maine in 1998, says he intends to plead not guilty. Interestingly, Connolly first drew national attention when he was identified as the Democrat who tipped the media to President George Bush’s 1976 drunken-driving arrest in Kennebunkport.

I hope that none of you dressed as Osama yesterday! LOL