The lady who was caught red-handed within Robert De Niro’s $69,000 per thirty days rented townhouse December 19 says the cops haven’t any proper to press prices and needs a possibility to apologize to the Oscar winner.
Shanice Aviles, 30, who has a rap sheet so long as De Niro’s IMDb web page, informed the New York Put up in an interview from Riker’s Island that her arrest ‘felt like a arrange.’
On the time she allegedly broke into the house, De Niro was asleep upstairs, as was his daughter. He awoke from the sounds of the commotion and got here all the way down to his front room to seek out Aviles being arrested.
By means of tears, Aviles informed the Put up, ‘I like his films, all of them! My mom, my grandmother, my grandfather, all of us used to look at them.’ She added, ‘I’d like to apologize to him.’
Aviles additionally mentioned, ‘I’m being held right here on housebreaking — housebreaking! I didn’t take any of his stuff. I didn’t have any of his stuff on me.’
Shanice Aviles, 30, does not perceive how she could possibly be charged with housebreaking when she did not take something
Robert De Niro, 79, pictured within the hours after the break-in
Investigators say that Aviles was trying to steal presents from beneath the Goodfellas’ star’s Christmas tree.
When police arrived, they discovered her attempting to position items right into a bag and taking part in round on the actor’s iPad.
She was being adopted by NYPD officers at roughly 3am on the morning of December 19 when she broke into De Niro’s seven-bedroom, East sixty fifth Avenue townhouse.
Aviles informed the Put up that she was coming residence from her brother’s home in Lengthy Island Metropolis when she observed {that a} door to the townhouse was ajar, which leads her to imagine that she was arrange by the cops.
Police have mentioned there have been indicators of pressured entry and that she made her manner into the constructing through a basement door. In addition they say that they tracked Aviles trying to open different doorways within the space.
Aviles mentioned of De Niro, ‘Individuals have mentioned he’s imply, that he’s not a pleasant man, however I feel he’s a superb man. He might’ve made some calls and made my bail much more.’
Shortly after being taken into custody, Aviles informed gathered reporters exterior of the nineteenth precinct, ”I did not go to Robert De Niro’s home… I did not homicide anyone!’
De Niro’s seven-bedroom townhouse on the Higher East Aspect. He awoke to the commotion of cops confronting the burglar downstairs
De Niro was asleep in one of many houses seven bedrooms (above) when the burglar pressured her manner in
Previous to her arrest, Aviles was already on the NYPD’s radar. She was wished for a string of different burglaries, and has been arrested 26 instances earlier than, together with 15 instances simply this yr.
In keeping with CBS New York she was arrested most not too long ago on December 13 and round a month earlier when she stole $700 from a Catholic Church in Astoria.
There was an open warrant on Aviles after she skipped a court-ordered drug rehab earlier in December. After being arrested for the De Niro break-in, she was held on housebreaking prices with a $40,000 bond.
Aviles mentioned that she would return to the rehab program if given the possibility.
She was caught as a result of police had been following her within the early hours of the morning and watched her make quite a few makes an attempt to enter industrial buildings within the space.
In keeping with police she was seen attempting just a few doorways earlier than she slipped away round a nook. By the point the officers caught up along with her they observed a door to a townhouse was open.
Shanice Aviles smiled as she was led from a close-by police station in cuffs after being caught in actor Robert De Niro’s home
Police don’t suppose that Aviles knew she was getting into the house of the person considered one of many best actors of all time.
Aviles was charged with housebreaking and brought to the Lenox Hill precinct earlier than being taken to Manhattan Prison Court docket for her arraignment final week.
De Niro break up from his second spouse Grace Hightower in 2021. The pair share an 11-year-old daughter.
De Niro, who grew up in Manhattan, bought the West Village townhouse through which he had lived for 37 years for $9.5million in 2012. In the course of the pandemic he moved to remain in considered one of his homes in upstate New York.
Stan Rosenfield, a PR consultant for De Niro, issued a short assertion indicating the actor wouldn’t be commenting on the theft.
‘We don’t make any assertion presently in regards to the theft on the short-term rental residence of Robert De Niro,’ Rosenfield mentioned.
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Final month, New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams urged newly-elected Governor Kathy Hochul to ditch the ‘catch, launch, repeat’ bail reforms which might be fueling the town’s crime epidemic.
Hochul inherited the governorship of New York from Andrew Cuomo final yr. She was re-elected in Tuesday’s midterm on a narrower-than-expected margin and has been extensively panned for her smooth stance on crime and bail reform.
The bail reforms applied in 2019 get rid of money bond in most situations, a progressive concept that has meant many criminals are launched again onto the streets inside hours of being picked up.
‘This catch, repeat, launch system is simply destroying the muse of our nation. And that is why we’re shedding this election,’ he informed MSNBC’s Morning Joe final month.
‘Six out of 10 New Yorkers within the Hispanic and Asian neighborhood voted Democrat in comparison with seven to eight out of 10 final time. We’re shedding the bottom black and brown who actually imagine in these staple items. Public security, housing, schooling,’ the previous cop mentioned.
‘We can’t speak our manner out of this. We have now to be actual what individuals are going through on the road.
‘We should return to Albany… too many individuals in Albany, they’ve dug in and say, “If we modify this small variety of offenders and go after them, that we’re relinquishing a reform that I advocated for.”
‘To not recalibrate is a giant mistake as a result of there are too many individuals… which might be repeated offenders. They’ve made up their thoughts that they’ll be violent in our streets, and the unpredictableness of their habits is admittedly…’
