Pair Arrested After Emerging From Manhole Near Hotel Where Netanyahu Stays, Police Say
Police say surveillance video showed the men emerging from a sewer and fleeing in two vehicles, while investigators search for at least two others.
- On Thursday, the NYPD arrested Kevin Rodriguez, 26, and Samuel Reveron, 25, in connection with two men seen climbing out of a manhole on Park Avenue at 61st Street early Wednesday morning.
- Both men admitted entering the sewer system to search for valuables washed away in storm drains, a practice authorities call "drain diving." Court documents show they acted together in the early morning hours.
- Surveillance footage captured the trio emerging from the manhole Wednesday morning, while automatic license plate readers tracked their vehicles crossing the Queensboro Bridge around 4 a.m., alerting authorities to their VIN and license plate numbers.
- Officials charged Rodriguez and Reveron with trespassing and conspiracy, though investigators are still searching for a third individual seen in the surveillance footage climbing out of the sewer.
- Authorities ruled out terrorism despite heightened security sweeps near the United Nations General Assembly, noting the incident fits a pattern of unauthorized sewer entries reported in recent months.
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New York City's latest manhole mystery may not be a caper after all, but a hunt for washed-away loot. Two men were arrested on trespassing charges after police said they were cught on camera climbing out of a manhole near East 61st Street and Park Avenue around 1:38am Wednesday,...
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Two New York men have been arrested after allegedly emerging from a manhole just outside a Manhattan hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly stays during the United Nations General Assembly. The bizarre predawn incident initially set off national security concerns because of the location and the extraordinary security surrounding Netanyahu’s visit to New […]
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