CHICAGO — A person who twice broke home windows on the Trump Worldwide Lodge & Tower this 12 months, inflicting $145,000 in harm, advised police that he does it every time he sees the previous president throughout a psychological well being episode, in response to a Chicago police report.
Andrew Brierly, 21, is charged with two counts of felony harm between $10,000 and $100,000.
Brierly threw stones to interrupt six home windows on the complicated, 401 North Wabash, on October 16, the report mentioned. Damages allegedly totaled $80,000.
A Trump safety officer acknowledged Brierly and knowledgeable police that he had performed the identical factor on Could 17, inflicting $65,000 in damages.
Cops arrested Brierly at his Rogers Park dwelling after the safety guard picked him out of a photograph line-up, the report mentioned.
A Chicago police supervisor famous within the report that Brierly advised officers that seeing Trump whereas having an episode “makes him do it.”
Choose Deidre Dyer launched Brierly to await trial.
He’s not the primary particular person to get into scorching water for damaging the Trump property.
In October 2017, 37-year-old Holdson Marcelin was charged with trashing the lodge’s Sixteenth-floor restaurant to the tune of $14,000. Marcelin’s rampage included “smashing glass, flipping tables, throwing chairs, pouring crimson wine on upholstery,” and breaking signage earlier than Trump safety detained him, a CPD report acknowledged.
After going AWOL a few instances and receiving psychological well being therapy, Marceling lastly pleaded responsible in June 2023, receiving a one-year sentence, which was happy by the point he spent in custody.
In March 2017, Robert Heath, a 30-year-old rip-off artist from Canton, Georgia, skipped out on a $1,838.90 bar tab at Trump Tower Terrace. He allegedly scammed two different companies inside per week, then by no means confirmed up for court docket. He stays at massive with an energetic arrest warrant, in response to court docket data.
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