The accused nightmare tenant squatting in a rent-controlled West Village apartment was arrested over the weekend for allegedly smashing a neighbor’s doorbell camera, The Post has learned.
Melvin DeJesus, 66, was caught on his neighbor’s camera knocking on the door repeatedly, taping a note to it — and then ripping the Ring Video Doorbell off the wall and taking it with him on Thursday, March 5, prosecutors alleged.
Witnesses told The Post they saw “a phalanx” of cops on Saturday approach DeJesus, who was sitting in a car once used by his former roommate and late lifelong resident of 400 Bleeker St, John Grafenecker.
“They just took him out of the car slowly and cuffed him,” one witness said…