A profession burglar broke into actor Robert De Niro’s Upper East Side, New York, home early Monday (Dec 19) morning and tried to steal presents from under the Christmas tree, police mentioned.
The legendary actor got here speeding right down to the second flooring of his townhouse and located police arresting 30-year-old Shanice Aviles. She was allegedly grabbing presents from under De Niro’s tree and had fiddled round together with his iPad, police mentioned.
Police officers from the nineteenth Precinct’s Public Safety Team had earlier recognizing Aviles, whom they know from earlier incidents, strolling the streets of the Upper East Side on the lookout for a retailer to burglarize, police mentioned.
Aviles, a suspect in 5 latest burglaries, slipped out of their view about 2.45am and went down a stairwell resulting in De Niro’s townhouse.
The cops stayed again, not but certain if she had dedicated against the law. But after a short while they headed inside De Niro’s home and arrested her.
Police consider she was unaware the home belonged to De Niro, who has lit up the silver display for greater than 50 years together with star turns in Godfather II to Goodfellas to The Irishman.
De Niro spokesman Stan Rosenfeld described the townhouse because the actor’s “temporary rental home” and declined additional remark.
With reporters and onlookers gathered outdoors the townhouse Monday afternoon, a locksmith confirmed as much as change the locks and lunch deliveries have been produced from Dominique Ansel Baker and Nobu. De Niro co-founded the primary Nobu in 1994.
De Niro got here downstairs to research what was occurring however didn’t work together with the criminal, police sources mentioned.
A locksmith is seen putting in a deadbolt on the entrance door of the burgled townhouse. Photo: TNS
Shanice Aviles, 30, was arrested for housebreaking, against the law for which bail can’t be set for a primary offense – although judges do generally have the power to set bail after a number of housebreaking arrests.
Aviles has a tattoo of a cranium with a knife by it and a rose on her hand. She additionally has a rose tattoo on her arm. She has the phrases “Respect” and “Loyalty” tattooed on her arms together with the identify “Veronica,” police sources mentioned.
She has 32 prior arrests, 20 of them for felonies, sources mentioned. This 12 months alone, Aviles has 17 arrests in Manhattan and Queens, the place she is being eyed in a string of burglaries being investigated by the 114th Precinct in Astoria.
“You can’t tell me bail reform isn’t an issue when you have a repeat offender like this woman constantly arrested then let go,” a police supply mentioned. “At some point, you have to say, ‘Why is she not behind bars?”
Aviles’ most up-to-date arrest, on Dec 13, was for 2 Queens crimes.
NYPD officers take suspect Shanice Aviles to Central Booking Monday after she was allegedly caught stealing Christmas presents from under a tree at Robert De Niro’s townhouse on the Upper East Side. Photo: TNS
She allegedly stole on Oct 23 about US$1,000 from St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Dutch Kills and ransacked an Astoria condominium on Oct 1, stealing a debit card she later used to spend greater than US$50 at 7-11, in keeping with court docket papers.
At her arraignment for that arrest, Aviles was let go under phrases of supervised launch.
Earlier this month, on Dec 8, Aviles was busted for six different Manhattan burglaries.
She was ordered held on US$5,000 bail for 3 of the crimes – stealing a money register iPhone and beauty facial kits from a store on E. twenty sixth St., stealing cash from a Second Ave. tackle and utilizing a crowbar to interrupt right into a restaurant, additionally on Second Ave.
But on Dec 13, in keeping with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, a court docket order allowed her to as an alternative go for substance abuse rehab. Two days later, she failed to seem in court docket.
Prior to that, Aviles was busted in Oct 11 for 3 different thefts, then let go on supervised launch.
On Oct 11, Aviles broke into one other condominium and took a pockets and keys from a nightstand however when the 68-year-old tenant awoke he went to the kitchen and noticed Aviles hiding by the fridge, in keeping with court docket papers. They scuffled and he stabbed Aviles within the left thigh.
On Oct 3, Aviles allegedly broke into a girl’s condominium and made off with a bag, US$200 in money, a hoop and different gadgets. The sufferer advised police she awoke and noticed the thief strolling in by her entrance door – however was so scared she stayed in mattress and watched because the suspect robbed her, in keeping with the grievance.
She allegedly stole about US$2,000 value of coupons from a neighborhood middle on Aug 19. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
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