A serial burglar was caught red-handed rifling by way of Robert De Niro’s Manhattan townhouse early Monday — twiddling with the actor’s iPad and grabbing presents below his Christmas tree, sources advised The Post.
The 30-year-old lady, recognized as Shanice Aviles, crept down a stairwell resulting in the 79-year-old star’s townhouse on the Upper East Side round 2:30am, the sources stated.
Eagle-eyed cops with the NYPD’s nineteenth Precinct Public Safety crew had been keeping track of Aviles — a “known burglar” with greater than 25 arrests on her rap sheet — after she was noticed making an attempt to open doorways to industrial buildings within the neighbourhood earlier than she acquired to the townhouse, based on the sources.
The cops trailed her into De Niro’s residence and located her on the second ground – fumbling round with the star’s iPad, the sources stated.
“She was stealing Christmas presents,” a police official added.
There are images of De Niro everywhere in the home, based on the sources – however the actor himself was nowhere in sight. He was upstairs and his daughter was in a bed room, based on the sources. None of the residents knew what was occurring, the sources stated.
The officers busted Aviles contained in the $US69k-a-month rental residence, with fees now pending towards her, the sources stated.
Aviles has not less than 26 prior arrests, principally for burglaries, which aren’t eligible for bail below the state’s controversial legal justice reforms — permitting her to go free.
The sticky-fingered thief started her crimes through the pandemic.
This 12 months alone, she has been busted 16 occasions for housebreaking and petit larceny, based on the sources.
“Back in the saddle with this perp,” stated a police supply.
Records present Aviles was arraigned on fees related to 2 Queens burglaries simply final Wednesday and launched with out bail, based on data and sources.
In these instances, she was accused of stealing $US1,000 in money from St. Patrick’s Church in Dutch Kills on Oct. 23 and of ransacking an condo on Oct. 1, making off with a debit card. She later used the cardboard to cost greater than $US50 at native 7-11, based on the legal grievance towards her.
Aviles was picked up for seven burglaries within the nineteenth Precinct – which covers the Upper East Side – between Nov. 25 and Dec. 8, the sources stated.
She was arrested for six burglaries on Dec. 8, the police official stated.
Prior to that, Aviles was arraigned on Oct. 11 on three separate burglaries in Manhattan courting to August, based on a legal grievance.
Those included an Oct. 11 heist through which a 68-year-old house owner allegedly discovered her hiding behind his fridge when he awoke and realised his pockets was lacking from his night time desk.
He allegedly caught the thief hiding behind his fridge and acquired right into a scuffle together with her, stabbing her within the leg, based on the grievance.
On Oct. 3, Aviles allegedly broke into a lady’s condo and made off with a bag, $200 in money, a hoop and different gadgets. The sufferer advised police she awoke and noticed the thief strolling in by way of her entrance door — however was so scared she stayed in mattress and watched because the suspect robbed her, based on the grievance.
Aviles was additionally charged with stealing $US2,000 in coupons from an East seventieth Street neighborhood centre on Aug. 19, the data present.
“This is just another example of the catch-and-release justice system we’re dealing with,” the police official stated.
A supply described Aviles as “one of the [19th Precinct’s] top five burglars.”
Reps for De Niro declined to touch upon Monday’s housebreaking.
“We are not making any statements at this time about the robbery at the temporary rental home of Robert De Niro,” Media Strategies Representation Consulting stated in an e mail to The Post on Monday.
This story initially appeared on Page Six and is republished right here with permission.
