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Thomas Johnson, a registered sex offender, was arrested for breaking into the home of his neighbor of 81 years in Brooklyn, where some of her clothing was removed and her jaw was broken, the NYPD announced.
The elderly victim heard a noise coming from her living room in the Crown Heights neighborhood around 1 am Tuesday and there he found Johnson, his neighbor of 50 years.
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“The subject began to choke and hit her and she lost consciousness,” New York Police Chief of Detectives James Essig said today at One Police Plaza at the NYPD. . “When she was treated at a local hospital, it was discovered that she had a dislocated jaw and several items of clothing were missing.”
Johnson and her victim knew each other as neighbors, Essig said. Detectives took him into custody as a suspect and he had been arrested last year for another strangulation case, police said.
Johnson is a third level registered sex offender, “which is our level highest,” Essig detailed.He had nine prior arrests, including one in August 2006 for sexually abusing a girl. That time he pleaded guilty and served a year behind bars, according to New York Post.
Previously in June 2003 was arrested for attempted murder and pleaded guilty of aggression. He also has multiple charges of grand theft on his record and other unspecified crimes in 2003 and 2021.