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https://nypost.com/2018/08/17/menta...ly-terrorized-neighbor-released-without-bail/
A self-described schizophrenic man was finally arrested for allegedly terrorizing his downstairs neighbor in their Washington Heights apartment building — only to be released immediately with no bail.
“Now I’m even more afraid,” the 22-year-old victim said of neighbor Roy Rodriguez, when told of his turnstile-justice release by a reporter Friday. “He knows I put him in jail and now he’s right out again.”
Rodriguez, 33, had first been carted to a psych ward by cops on Aug. 7, immediately after allegedly threatening to kill the neighbor with a brick and a knife at their W. 174th Street building.
He was back out the next day, only to finally be arrested Thursday after three “police inaction” stories in The Post.
But a newly elected Manhattan Civil Court judge who covered Rodriguez’s criminal arraignment ordered him sprung again, despite his admitting to cops that he had threatened the young woman.
Her name is being withheld by The Post due to her concerns for her safety.
“I was flustered,” Rodriguez allegedly told cops as he was hauled into Central Booking on Thursday.
“I felt like she was following me and she was going to do something to me,” he told cops, according to prosecutors. “I had a rock and I was going to throw it at her.”
His victim, meanwhile, insists it was a brick — and says that when she and her brother confronted Rodriguez after he threw it at her outside their building, he then threatened her with a knife and had to be held back by his uncle.
“The defendant menaced the complaining witness, who was his neighbor, two separate times with two different weapons, specifically a brick and a knife, within a short period of time,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Andrew Keenan told Justice Suzanne Adams, in requesting bail be set at $2,000.
Rodriguez’s court-appointed lawyer, Jessica Heyman, countered that Rodriguez had no criminal record and lives with family members who are now insisting he take his medications.
“My guess is that this case will be resolved with mental-health treatment,” she told the judge. “Hopefully he will be on track to be in a better condition.”
Adams, who was elected in November after running unopposed on the Democratic/Working Families line, ordered Rodriguez be released on his own recognizance.
“He got hospitalized for a day, then he got let out. He got arrested for a day, then he got let out,” the victim told The Post on Friday. “I’m just so disappointed in the system.”
A self-described schizophrenic man was finally arrested for allegedly terrorizing his downstairs neighbor in their Washington Heights apartment building — only to be released immediately with no bail.
“Now I’m even more afraid,” the 22-year-old victim said of neighbor Roy Rodriguez, when told of his turnstile-justice release by a reporter Friday. “He knows I put him in jail and now he’s right out again.”
Rodriguez, 33, had first been carted to a psych ward by cops on Aug. 7, immediately after allegedly threatening to kill the neighbor with a brick and a knife at their W. 174th Street building.
He was back out the next day, only to finally be arrested Thursday after three “police inaction” stories in The Post.
But a newly elected Manhattan Civil Court judge who covered Rodriguez’s criminal arraignment ordered him sprung again, despite his admitting to cops that he had threatened the young woman.
Her name is being withheld by The Post due to her concerns for her safety.
“I was flustered,” Rodriguez allegedly told cops as he was hauled into Central Booking on Thursday.
“I felt like she was following me and she was going to do something to me,” he told cops, according to prosecutors. “I had a rock and I was going to throw it at her.”
His victim, meanwhile, insists it was a brick — and says that when she and her brother confronted Rodriguez after he threw it at her outside their building, he then threatened her with a knife and had to be held back by his uncle.
“The defendant menaced the complaining witness, who was his neighbor, two separate times with two different weapons, specifically a brick and a knife, within a short period of time,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Andrew Keenan told Justice Suzanne Adams, in requesting bail be set at $2,000.
Rodriguez’s court-appointed lawyer, Jessica Heyman, countered that Rodriguez had no criminal record and lives with family members who are now insisting he take his medications.
“My guess is that this case will be resolved with mental-health treatment,” she told the judge. “Hopefully he will be on track to be in a better condition.”
Adams, who was elected in November after running unopposed on the Democratic/Working Families line, ordered Rodriguez be released on his own recognizance.
“He got hospitalized for a day, then he got let out. He got arrested for a day, then he got let out,” the victim told The Post on Friday. “I’m just so disappointed in the system.”
