AUBURN - A burglar was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for what the Cayuga County District Attorney's office said was his ninth home burglary.

Nicholas Trapp, 43, of Utica, was sentenced in Cayuga County Court Thursday as a second-time violent felony offender for a daytime residential burglary in Brutus. During that burglary, a replacement wedding and engagement ring set was stolen, Assistant District Attorney Charles Thomas said.

Trapp also was sentenced to serve five years post-release supervision for the felony crime of second-degree burglary. He had previously been released on parole in July 2002 for a state prison term related to burglary charges. The Brutus residents returned home in the middle of the March 25, 2005, burglary. They smashed the driver's side window as Trapp's car pulled away and wrote down the license plate number. That car was found abandoned in the Bombardier parking lot with dried blood inside it.

Trapp was extradited from Wisconsin after the burglary. He had been caught trying to sell stolen property at a pawn shop. Trapp did not make any statement to the court Thursday, and his assigned attorney Lisa Blair only asked that the surcharge for felony convictions be waived for Trapp.

Judge Peter Corning said he did not see anything positive in Trapp's pre-sentencing report and that he showed no remorse.

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