New York police announced on Friday, January 28, 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.
Morgan Mank, 31, of Virginia, was arrested after driving the wrong way down a street in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca, the American singer's New York home from 32 years old to nearly 200 million followers on Instagram.
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According to the police report consulted by AFP, around 3 a.m. Friday (0800 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 Taylor Swift lives.
The suspect then
“exited his vehicle, approached the building and tried unsuccessfully to force entry through a secure door”
.
Morgan Mank was hospitalized for examination, 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 multi-award-winning pop star has been targeted by those she's called
"stalkers
, "
"one of her biggest fears
," and who she wants to protect herself from.
In 2019 in Elle
magazine
, she wrote that there were
“enough stalkers trying to break into
(her) house
”
that she felt compelled to
“prepare for something bad to happen”
.
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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 house, with a project and a baseball bat, to
“visit”
her .
The superstar won a lawsuit in 2017 against David Mueller, a DJ she accused of sexual assault.