The robber broke into the woman’s home, tackled her, knocked her senseless in front of her toddler and stole her wedding ring. And a “nanny” camera filmed every stomach-turning moment of the attack. Armed with the crucial video evidence, authorities say they identified the brute as ex-con Shawn Custis, 42, and nabbed him in Manhattan Friday, hours after an old mug shot was released to the media. Custis, whose criminal record dates to the early 1990s and includes a dozen convictions, was tracked to a building on Tenth Ave. in Washington Heights, where the FBI’s Violent Fugitive Task Force and cops from Millburn, N.J., pinched him inside an apartment building lobby about 5:30 p.m., sources said. A week earlier, the victim, a Millburn resident, was at home watching cartoons with her 3-year-old daughter while her 18-month-old slept upstairs. Luckily, a nanny camera was filming from atop its perch on a fireplace mantle in the room where the mother was watching TV. The home invader then dragged the woman and threw her down the stairs. DOZEN CONVICTIONS: Ted has the answer to this. youtube/watch?v=wlkhQ6GybPs
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:14:00 +0000