(New York) New York police announced on Friday the arrest of a 30-year-old man who drove his car into the building of pop superstar Taylor Swift overnight in order to return home.
Posted at 5:49 p.m.
Morgan Mank, 31, of Virginia, was arrested after driving the wrong way down a street in lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, the New York home of the 32-year-old American singer. years to nearly 200 million followers on Instagram.
According to the police report consulted by AFP, around 3 a.m. Friday (8 a.m. GMT), “witnesses claim to have seen a man in a car driving in the wrong direction on Franklin Street and hitting a residential building”, where lives Taylor Swift. The suspect then “got out of his vehicle, approached the building and tried unsuccessfully to force entry to a secure door”.
Mr. Mank was hospitalized to be examined there, according to the police who did not confirm hostile remarks towards the star that he would have uttered.
It’s not the first time the award-winning pop star has been targeted by those she has called “stalkers,” “one of her biggest fears,” and against whom she wants to protect herself.
In 2019 in the magazine Sheshe wrote that there were “enough stalkers trying to break into [elle] so that she feels compelled to “prepare for something bad to happen”.
Another New York man, Roger Alvarado, has been arrested multiple times in recent years for attempting to break into Taylor Swift’s Manhattan home.
In June 2019, a suspected burglar from Iowa was arrested in Rhode Island, where the singer has a home, with a project and a baseball bat to “visit” him.
The superstar won a lawsuit in 2017 against David Mueller, a DJ she accused of sexual assault.