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Authorities to charge four men in skydive from 1 World Trade Center
The Manhattan district attorney’s office plans to charge Andrew Rossig, James Brady, Kyle Hartwell and Marco Markovich with burglary for their predawn plunge from the tower, a source told the Daily News. Three skydivers leaped off the building around 3 a.m. on Sept. 30 while a fourth man remained on the ground as a lookout.
BY Shayna Jacobs , Rocco Parascandola , Tina Moore
March 24, 2014
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It was a Geroni-no-no.
Authorities are poised to charge four daredevils in a dangerous, predawn skydive from 1 World Trade Center six months ago, a source told the Daily News.
Word of the charges came on the heels of a major security breach at 1 World Trade Center last week when a New Jersey teen crawled through a hole in a fence and managed to reach the roof of the tower, 1,368 feet above street level.
Fears of terrorism were sparked when two of the men, clad in black and wearing helmets, were caught on security cameras landing between the Goldman Sachs building and the Conrad Hotel.
The men were carrying parachutes but investigators were unsure at the time whether they jumped from a building or a plane.
In the end, the parachutists were nabbed because they saved video footage of the exploits.
Authorities got search warrants for their homes and discovered GoPro camera footage of the jump, the source said. It was unclear how investigators identified the men
The Manhattan district attorney’s office plans to charge the four — Andrew Rossig, James Brady, Kyle Hartwell and Marco Markovich — with burglary, the source said. Other charges are possible.
Hartwell kept lookout on the ground and the other three jumped, the source said. They are all expected to surrender to the NYPD’s First Precinct on Thursday.
The district attorney’s office and the Port Authority declined to comment on the case Sunday.
Rossig and Brady were previously arrested in December 2012 for trying to jump from a tower at Co-op City in the Bronx. The duo and two other men were on the roof of a 33-floor building with parachutes when they were caught by cops, the Bronx Times reported.
Rossig also received tickets for disorderly conduct after jumping off an Orange County bridge in 2008, the Times Herald-Record reported.
The fact that security at 1 World Trade Center remained lax nearly six months after the skydivers jumped drew harsh criticism from a lawyer representing one of the men.
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http://nypost.com/2014/03/24/port-au...urity-cameras/
Port Authority didn’t pay to install WTC security cameras
By Philip Messing
March 24, 2014
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Port Authority officials bought a surveillance system in August that could have detected the 16-year-old kid who got to the top of 1 World Trade Center last week — but it’s still sitting in its box in a back office because they didn’t want to pay extra for installation, a well-placed source told The Post.
The PA honcho in charge of the $4,000 security purchase for the top of America’s No. 1 terror target was furious that such a seemingly large amount of money was spent on the two-camera system and refused to spend any more to hook it up, the source said.
“He looked at me and my colleague and said, ‘Why did I spend $4,000 on this equipment when you could have gone to Home Depot and gotten something cheaper?’ ’’ said the source, a veteran electrician who worked on the project for the vendor, Angel Electronics.
“I was kind of stunned, because that’s a pretty bold statement to make considering we got the specs from them, and the Port Authority had it made to order.”
The 114-floor, 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, which is still under construction, was the site of a potentially disastrous security blunder last week when young daredevil Justin Casquejo managed to breeze past several layers of security to make it to the top floor of the tower.
At the top is a massive spire and antenna designed to control sensitive radio, television and cellphone traffic in the region, as well as signals used to maintain the smooth operation of area airports, tunnels and bridges.
The PA bought the “Two-Camera DVR Solution System” specifically to safeguard the tower, the source said. He added the cameras were to be installed quickly after the early August purchase; the spire that holds the antenna was hoisted into place in May.
PA spokesman Steve Coleman said the cameras “had no surveillance value whosoever” even if they had been installed because there was no infrastructure in place to get them working. “The building is still under construction, so the wiring for the network has not yet reached the 104th floor,” he said.
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