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New York City police arrested a woman who broke into Robert De Niro’s home early Monday, according to a law enforcement source.
The woman did not interact with her the actor The source said that he was on another floor. The source said the suspect has been known to the New York Police Department since previous arrests and is one of the five biggest robbers in the area.
She had already been arrested twice this month prior to Monday on various burglary charges in New York, a law enforcement source told CNN.
Officers from the 19th Precinct saw the woman walking down a street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side early Monday, trying various doors to commercial buildings before she stormed through the door of an apartment building.
The source said they followed her and arrested her on the first floor.
At around 2:45 a.m., officers arrested the 30-year-old woman inside a home as she was trying to remove property, a spokesperson for the NYPD’s deputy public information commissioner told CNN. The property included Christmas gifts and an iPad.
The spokesman said the door to the basement of the house showed signs of forced entry. The woman has been taken into custody with charges pending.
The spokesman did not confirm who owns the house.