A brutal squatter of New York City will change a stolen house for a prison chat after he had committed guilty.
Brian Rodriguez, 36, started occupying the $ 1 million house of $ 1 million from Adele Andaloro in February 2024 in February 2024 and refused to leave. He even went so far that he called the police on the homeowner when she changed the ditches on the doors.
On Friday, the serial squatters were sentenced to two years in prison and five years of accompanied release in a Queens Court. He argued guilty of an incident in January guilty, said the office of the public prosecutor.
“At the end of the day we make a message very clear – you can't walk in a house that you do not own and say that you have the right to stay and we will ensure that this also has a frightening effect, and it will,” said Da Melinda Katz, according to ABC 7.
“We are most proud that we got the house back for the homeowner.”
Andaloro noted that her house was occupied when she turned up in February 2024 to find the locks and the front door had changed.
Rodriguez had also started renting the rooms to others, even though they had no legal ownership of the house, officers of justice said.
The homeowner was eventually able to access the house where she changed the locks – a movement that would give her to be arrested after Rodriguez had called the police.
Brian Rodriguez, 36, was sentenced to two years in prison and five years of accompanying release for falsely reporting that he lived in the $ 1 million house of Adele Andaloro in Flushing, Queens, Queens
Andaloro noted that her house was occupied when she showed up in February 2024 to find the locks and the front door had changed
Rodriguez said he had a lease through a broker, which was incorrect
Shocked, Andalaro Rodriguez confronted, screaming against him for 'stealing her house', which led to an explosive confrontation that at some point Rodriguez tried to break down the front door.
Rodriguez pushed through while Andaloro and a crew of journalists were there. After an impasse, he called the police and was arrested to change the locks.
It is illegal in New York for homeowners to change the ditches or touch assets or to close utilities if someone claims that they rightly inhabit the space. And the police cannot remove them as invaders because of the legal affairs that take place in the civil court, not criminal.
Rodriguez claimed that he had a lease through a broker and he gave them fake paper of a brokerage company that did not exist, according to prosecutors.
He claimed that he is the victim of a fraudulent business deal and will leave the property if he is paid for 'upgrades' that he made to the home.
Rodriguez told the New York Post last year that after a $ 18,000 he was to return the house to the rightful owner after his attempt to start a 'side bustle' in flames.
A handful of alleged squatters in the house with four bedrooms then claimed that they were legitimate residents of the property who had paid rent to someone called 'Jay'.
Jay turned out to be Brian Rodriguez, who controls a Range Rover.
The homeowner was eventually able to access the house where she changed the locks – a movement that would give her to be arrested after Rodriguez had called the police. Rodriguez came to the house and then called the police on the homeowner
It is illegal in New York for homeowners to change the ditches or touch assets or to close utilities if someone claims that they rightly inhabit the space. Her charges were later withdrawn, but the DA started to look at the torment
The legislators voted to change the definition of the tenant, so that people hopefully allow people to remove squatters as violations
Rodriguez told the post that he was scammed to 'rent out' the house with a fake rent agreement drawn up by a fraudulent broker with whom he attempted to cash in on an attempt to cash in what he thought a program run by the city was that landlords paid $ 1,000 a month to take illegal migrants.
But such a program does not exist.
The indictment of Andaloro was later withdrawn, but then the DA's office began to look in the Krak.
His illegal occupation of the space led the state to change the definition of what a tenant has changed to exclude squatters, which has become a huge problem in the Big Apple.
The laws voted to change the definition, which will hopefully be able to remove squatters as violations.
In the state of New York, squatters who open a property and occupy 10 uninterrupted years openly and disadvantageously occupy, a negative claim of property, on condition that they have paid immovable property tax in that decade.
In New York City, however, squatters get rights after just 30 days, which means that landlords have to start an evacuation once a crinkle has been discovered.
