Taylor Swift’s ‘stalker’ charged after he tried to break in her apartment

A man has been charged with stalking Taylor Swift after neighbors saw an ’emotionally disturbed male’ skulking around the singer’s Tribeca apartment while holding flowers. David Crowe, 33, from Seattle, was arrested on Monday after police were told he was ‘acting erratically’ outside her $20million apartment on Franklin Street – three days after he was detained for trying to break into the building.

One neighbor told The New York Post that the man had been seen regularly outside the building since Christmas – sitting on the doorstep, chain-smoking, and telling people he was there to see Swift. He even had flowers for her at one point. On Monday, he was arrested outside her home, wearing tan pants, a cream hoodie and a navy overcoat at around 6pm. He was arrested three days earlier on Saturday for trying to break into the apartment building while wearing the same clothes.

Crowe has now been charged with two counts each of harassment and stalking, NYPD said. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department (NYPD) said: ‘Officers were approached by multiple complainants who pointed out an emotionally disturbed male acting erratically at the location.

‘Once officers observed the male harassing multiple complainants, they took him to custody without further incidents, no injuries were reported.’ At the time, Swift was away in Buffalo, New York – supporting her boyfriend Travis Kelce as his team the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Buffalo Bills in an NFL play-off game.

Three days earlier, on Saturday, Crowe was pictured peering into Swift’s lobby of her apartment building before ending up in cuffs. The NYPD told DailyMail.com Crowe was taken into custody on Saturday on an active warrant for failing to answer summons from 2017. It is not known where Swift was at the time of this particular incident.

It is not the first time the 12-time Grammy winner has caught the eye of over-eager fans, with a string of stalkers in her history leading her sold-out ‘Eras’ megatour to install facial recognition software to identify certain men from her past.

The NYPD said they were reporting to a call of a ‘disorderly person’, however a witness told Page Six that the man was ‘pretty civil’ throughout the incident. ‘I first saw him around 1pm, he went up to Taylor’s door,’ the eyewitness said.

‘I’m not sure if he knocked or rang the doorbell… it was all pretty civil. He didn’t resist. There was no yelling or anything.’ The star was last spotted in New York City on Thursday, where she stepped out for a recording session at Electric Lady Studios.

The multi-Grammy Award-winner, 34, bundled up in a black coat over a gray hooded shirt dress, and completed her low-key look with black leather shoes and a stylish suede Manu Atelier handbag. She is expected to stay in New York through the weekend, to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce’s NFL game against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium upstate.

Swift’s home in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood has become a common meeting place for her most fervent fans, often camping out in hopes of catching a glimpse of their favorite artist. But her megastar status has also attracted its fair share of unsavory supporters.

On Friday, a man in a similar outfit to ‘David’ was also seen lingering outside Swift’s apartment. Despite a snowstorm gripping New York City at the time, the weather did little to deter the man in tan pants and a navy overcoat, who was seen being spoken to by an NYPD vehicle, but it is unclear if anything developed.

In 2021 Swift opened up about her growing fear of stalkers and creepy fans, telling Elle: ‘My fear of violence has continued into my personal life. ‘I carry QuikClot army grade bandage dressing, which is for gunshot or stab wounds… you get enough stalkers trying to break into your house and you kind of start prepping for bad things.’

 

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