Well this is terrifying: on Friday evening, a man broke into Taylor Swift’s New York City apartment, showered and slept there before police eventually found him and arrested him several hours later.
As TMZ reports, thankfully, Taylor wasn’t home when the incident happened — but that doesn’t exactly make it less scary. According to law enforcement, the 22-year-old man, who has been identified as Roger Alvarado, was reportedly seen by one of Tay’s neighbors, who noticed him climbing the fire escape and smashing a window in the apartment with his hand (ouch.) before climbing in.
Alvarado then proceeded to shower and fall asleep in one of the beds in the apartment before the NYPD arrived and arrested him for stalking, burglary and criminal mischief. To make matters worse, this is the second time Alvarado has been arrested at this address — back in February he was caught attempting to break down the door to the brownstone apartment with a shovel. So while it hasn’t been confirmed whether he’s aware of the apartment’s famous owner, it definitely seems like he might be.
Sadly, this is also not the first time this year that Taylor has had to deal with some pretty scary stuff. Earlier this year, a man was arrested after trying to scale a wall outside her house in Beverly Hills — the same residence where yet another stalker had previously tried to break in wearing a mask and rubber gloves. She wasn’t home for either of these attempted break-ins either, luckily.