FERNDALE, Mich. — A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest.

Ronald Dotson, 39, of Detroit faces up to life in prison if convicted of a charge of attempted breaking and entering at a cleaning-supply company in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.

The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender. Over the last 13 years, authorities say he has at least six convictions for breaking and entering and a stint in state prison.

Ferndale District Judge Joseph Longo ordered Dotson to stand trial following a preliminary examination on Thursday, the Daily Tribune of Royal Oak reported. The judge ordered him jailed unless he posts a $15,000 bond.

Dotson was arrested October 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid’s uniform. He had been out of prison for less than a week.

Dotson was arrested in Ferndale in July 2000 and later convicted for breaking and entering at a women’s clothing shop to get at a mannequin in a pink dress with bobbed hair.

Ferndale police also arrested Dotson in 1993 after finding him in an alley behind a woman’s store with three lingerie-clad mannequins.

He also has similar convictions in Detroit and suburban Oak Park.