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Man arrested after crashing his vehicle into Taylor Swift's NYC building, police say

NEW YORK — A Virginia man has been arrested for crashing a car into Taylor Swift’s New York City apartment building and trying to gain entry, police said.

Morgan Mank, 31, was arrested shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday after driving the wrong way on Franklin Street in the Tribeca neighborhood, where Swift owns a townhouse and several apartments in an adjacent building, a police spokesperson said.

Police said Mank crashed into one of the buildings and tried unsuccessfully to gain entry. The spokesperson could not confirm reports that Mank told officers he wouldn’t leave until he met with Swift.

Mank was taken to a hospital for an evaluation and later arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired. It wasn’t clear if he had an attorney who could comment. A phone number listed for Mank in Ashburn, Virginia, was disconnected.

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'I've had a lot of stalkers': Taylor Swift braces for worst-case scenarios

Swift, a multiple Grammy winner with a fervent fan base, has been plagued by stalkers at her Tribeca home as well as homes she owns in California and Rhode Island.

This isn’t the first time Swift has had to deal with strangers coming to her residences. It happens so often Swift wrote in Elle magazine that she carries army-grade bandage dressing "for gunshot or stab wounds."

"I've had a lot of stalkers show up to the house armed. So we have to think that way," she added in her Elle magazine essay.

In 2021, a stalker who claims pop star Taylor Swift is communicating with him on social media was arrested on a trespassing charge after trying to break into the singer’s Manhattan apartment.

Previously in 2019, an Iowa man was arrested near the singer’s home carrying a backpack containing more than 30 lock picks and other burglary tools. After being discovered, he told police he was hoping to visit with Swift.

Contributed: Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY

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