A 33-year-old man was arrested twice in three days after stalking Taylor Swift outside her Manhattan home, police said Tuesday.
The man, David Crowe of Seattle, was charged by police Monday with two counts of harassment and two counts of stalking. A neighbor and a security guard at the pop star's TriBeCa building had spotted Mr. Crowe, who was first arrested near Ms. Swift's apartment over the weekend.
At about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, security personnel called 911 to report that Mr. Crowe was trying to break into the apartment, police said.
When officers looked up Mr. Crowe's name in police records, they saw that he had two arrest warrants dating back to 2017: one for an open container and one for disorderly conduct in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. A judge issued the arrest warrants after Mr. Crowe failed to appear in court to respond to those subpoenas.
Mr. Crowe was arrested on Saturday on those warrants but was not charged with attempting to enter Ms. Swift's apartment.
About 6 p.m. on Monday, Mr. Crowe returned to Ms. Swift's building, police said. A neighbor on the block and at least one member of the singer's security team saw Mr. Crowe and called 911. Mr Crowe was behaving “erratically”, police said.
Charges against Mr. Crowe for stalking and harassment were pending, according to a spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney. It was unclear Tuesday who was representing Mr. Crowe in court.
It was also not known whether Ms Swift was at home during the incidents. She hasn't posted anything about the allegations on Instagram or X. Her publicist did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
On Sunday, Ms. Swift attended the playoff football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs in New York. Her boyfriend Travis Kelce is a tight end for the Chiefs.
Ms. Swift was nominated for a half-dozen Grammy Awards this year, including best record and best pop solo performance for her anthem “Anti-Hero”; best pop vocal album and album of the year for “Midnights”; and best pop duo and group performance for the song “Karma.” “Anti-Hero” was also nominated for Song of the Year.
In December, Ms. Swift was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
“Swift’s achievements as an artist – cultural, critical and commercial – are so numerous that it almost seems unnecessary to list them,” the magazine wrote.