A man who served a prison term for breaking into Taylor Swift’s New York home has been arrested for doing the same thing a second time.
Roger Alvarado, from Homestead, Florida was arrested at around 2.30am local time on Thursday, police have confirmed.
He allegedly climbed a ladder to a second-floor patio of the Manhattan townhouse and smashed a glass door to get inside. The property was empty at the time.
An NYPD spokesperson told HuffPost US that Alvarado will now face charges of stalking, burglary, illegal entry, criminal mischief, criminal contempt and possession of burglary tools.
He served six months for breaking into the same property in April 2018, pleading guilty to attempted burglary and criminal contempt, after gaining entry to the apartment, taking a shower and falling asleep. No one was inside at the time of this break-in either.
Two months earlier, he had been arrested on charges of breaking the front door with a shovel.
Earlier this week, Swift discussed how she has become more security conscious in recent years, stating that she carries bandage dressings for gunshot snd stab wounds at all times.
“Websites and tabloids have taken it upon themselves to post every home address I’ve ever had online,” she added. “You get enough stalkers trying to break into your house and you kind of start prepping for bad things.”
For her Reputation tour, Swift brought in extra security measures, including hidden cameras fixed into a kiosk playing clips of Taylor’s rehearsals, which snapped pictures of attendees.
The photographs were sent to a Nashville office where they were checked against a database of Taylor’s known stalkers.