Bernhard Goetz in legal fight with landlord over pet squirrels and with cops over marijuana arrest
EXCLUSIVE: Bernhard Goetz in legal fight with landlord over pet squirrels and with cops over marijuana arrest
Notorious subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz is waging war on two legal fronts — fighting eviction from his Union Square apartment over his pet squirrels, and taking on the police over an arrest for selling weed to an undercover cop.
The 67-year-old’s beloved critter is one of many lease violations cited by Goetz’s landlord in Housing Court.
An inspection of the apartment in March, due to complaints about moths hatching from rotten food, revealed a homemade “habitrail” of cardboard boxes for a squirrel, papers show.
When an inspector asked if Goetz had more than one of the squirrels in the apartment, he replied, “Don’t ask,” according to court papers.
His squirrels have been a common sight dating back to at least 2004, when court papers say he was “observed washing a wild squirrel in the building’s laundry room.” He allegedly explained that “the squirrel had fleas.”
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