New York Post

He’s ‘spree’ and clear!

‘Burglar’ binge

- By LARRY CELONA, ANDREW DENNEY and BRUCE GOLDING Additional reporting by Alex Taylor

There’s another bailreform poster boy in town — and cops call this one the Brick Man!

Ex-con Anthony Manson, who earned his nickname by allegedly using a brick in smash-and-grabs, has been busted three times in a recent string of burglaries across Brooklyn and Manhattan — and released each time, The Post has learned.

Manson, 50, was arrested on Dec. 23 for three burglaries in Brooklyn earlier that month — and got a Christmas gift courtesy of Gov. Cuomo’s new bail law when he was released on Dec. 25.

Manson is suspected of then committing two burglaries in Brooklyn that same day, sources said.

He was busted again on Jan. 3 for two more breakins committed Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, records show.

Cops also suspect him of eight other burglaries in Brooklyn, sources said.

At Manson’s Jan. 4 arraignmen­t, prosecutor­s even cited his Dec. 23 arrest in seeking to have him held on $15,000 bail, but he was instead freed on supervised release, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.

A controvers­ial new state law bars judges from setting bail for defendants accused of nonviolent felonies.

Manson went on to get arrested yet again in Manhattan on Wednesday, where cops spotted him smashing a door to the Center Stage Optique eyewear store in Greenwich Village at around 2 a.m., authoritie­s said.

He was caught inside the store carrying a suitcase that held $3,995 worth of sunglasses and a rock, according to court papers.

Manson was arraigned Thursday and released without bail yet again, even though sources said he’s under investigat­ion for at least six other similar burglaries in Manhattan.

The career criminal’s rap sheet shows 67 arrests dating to 1991, sources said, and state records show he’s done two stints in prison, for robbery and selling drugs, respective­ly.

Manson told cops he lives in The Bronx, sources said, but neighbors at the address he provided said they’d never seen him there.

A Brooklyn detective said the situation “really pisses me off.”

“Besides feeling sorry for the victims, I feel sorry for the lawyers,” the source said. “Criminals don’t even need them anymore.”

A spokesman for the Legal Aid Society, which is representi­ng Manson in Brooklyn, said, “What this case does underscore is the absence of critically needed services in our city and the resulting failure to meet the needs of so many of our clients and other New Yorkers.”

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