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Shawn Custis is walked to a van by (L R) Essex County Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura, Sgt. He has escaped at least once from a halfway house and boasts multiple parole revocations.When he sought parole last year after pleading guilty to a string of burglaries, his request was denied by the State Parole Board. Citing his long criminal history, the board determined there was a "reasonable expectation" he would violate the conditions of his release. The board, in its March 2012 decision, noted Custis criminal record was "extensive and repetitive," and that prison had failed to deter his behavior.It concluded that inmate 543494B appeared "committed to a life of crime."So how did Custis charged last month in the notorious "Nanny Cam" home invasion that graphically captured the assault of a pandora valentine Charms with Accents Millburn woman on surveillance video get out of prison last December, three days before Christmas?MILLBURN SUSPECT'S LONG RAP SHEETCourt records show Custis bargained down the time he was facing for burglaries he committed in Essex, Mercer, Union and Middlesex counties to three years on each case, serving those sentences concurrently. With time he spent in jail before his case adjudicated, and credits for good behavior, he was out in 21 months.Put another way, Custis has been convicted of at least a dozen felonies since 1988. Yet he has never spent more than five years at any one stretch in state prison, according to state corrections department records. Most times with parole he been out in less than two. And in some cases, he did no jail time at all.A new and detailed review of Custis criminal past reveals a man with a penchant for violence, an appetite for drugs, and a willingness to kick down someone door for nothing more than whatever cash and jewelry he could stuff into his pockets or carry under his arm. Those records show a career criminal who has avoided the toughest penalties most of his life by sticking mostly to home burglaries that carry little prison exposure crimes that kept him never far from a favorable deal when caught, regardless of how often he was locked up.For example, in 2010, Custis pleaded guilty to burglarizing a home in Nutley. Facing five years, the court records revealed, he was sentenced to five years probation on condition he enter a drug treatment program.In 2008 he was arrested for burglary in Bloomfield. Never indicted, he was released from jail and committed three other burglaries in the same town a year later, Cheap Pandora Charms with all the cases later wrapped up into a single plea deal.In 2005, he was sentenced to four years for forgery. He only served three.Overcrowding in the courts and the prison system encourages plea deals, as well as parole. While the Administrative Office of the Courts does not track negotiated pleas by Pandora Jewelry Outlet specific crime, nearly 70 percent of all criminal indictments are resolved through a guilty plea that typically benefits a defendant with less prison time."It almost impossible to imagine a criminal justice system without plea agreements especially Essex County," said Todd Clear, dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. "They are scratching for resources."But critics say the pleas typically include the dismissal of some charges and the downgrading of others, giving a free ride to frequent offenders. At the same time, burglary is a property crime that does not carry the presumption of a prison sentence."They do a couple of years and then they are out," complained Bloomfield Police Chief Christopher Goul, who has arrested Custis twice once in 2008, and then in 2009 for a string of burglaries in the suburban township while he was out on bail for the first case.On Dec. 4, 2008, Bloomfield detectives on a stakeout in the southern end of town saw Custis carrying a suitcase that appeared to be empty. He swung it back and forth as he walked. Later, they spotted him dragging the suitcase on its wheels. They stopped him and found jewelry and other household items inside. About 20 minutes later, Goul said, a homeowner on Grace Street reported that her front door had been kicked in. She identified the contents of the suitcase as being stolen from her house.Although Custis was arrested and charged with burglary, he was never indicted in the case. Jailed pandora murano glass beads 100% pandora bracelets kays jewelry for sale genuine for a few months, he was released in February 2009 on bail.Less than a year later, Custis was again caught in Bloomfield. According to Goul, a woman on Bellevue Terrace called police after a man identified as Custis came to her door, first ringing the bell, then jiggling the knob as if to see if it were unlocked."She questioned him and he mumbled something about being a landscaper, there to trim the trees," said Goul.