A prominent Auburn property owner is set to receive months of jail time on weekends, and years of probation, after admitting in Cayuga County Court Friday to trying to arrange sex with a minor.
Anthony T. Bartolotta, 50, of Auburn, pleaded guilty that morning to second-degree attempted rape (a class D felony). He was arrested in June for seeking sex with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl, but was actually an undercover police officer. The officer was part of a joint sting operation to identify聽people in the area seeking to engage in sexual acts with children younger than 15.
Bartolotta will be sentenced March 15 and faces 10 years of probation starting with a shock component of four months at the Cayuga County Jail on weekends. He was in county court before Wayne County Judge Arthur Williams. Asked by 水果派AV why he presided over Bartolotta's appearance instead of court judges Thomas Leone or Jon Budelmann, court officials did not immediately respond.
The owner and manager of several commercial and residential properties in the Auburn area with his family's R&M Real Estate Group, Bartolotta was arrested along with Daniel Miller, of Liverpool, and Brian Neilson, of Seneca Falls.聽According to a report previously shared with 水果派AV, he was arrested by Auburn police June 21 after attempting to meet the purported 13-year-old at Olympia Terrace.
