By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A man distributing the New York Times in a luxury TriBeCa apartment building allegedly fondled a woman at home sleeping, according to the New York Post.
Deliveryman Luis MacAncela, 48, allegedly snuck into the 26-year-old victim's unlocked apartment at the pricy 50 Murray Street building around 5 a.m. last Sunday, sources told the Post.
Then, he molested her until she awoke screaming, the Post reported. At that point, MacAncela allegedly reached for the victim's crotch before running away.
MacAncela, a married father of two faces burglary and sexual abuse charges, according to the Post.
Although he was released on $5,000, he has been ordered to stay away from 50 Murray Street, the Post reported.
MacAncela's lawyer, Frank Rothman, said that his client entered the victim's apartment only because the door was left open and clothing thrown outside.
"He yelled out, 'is everyone OK?' in his broken English," Rothman told the Post. "She freaked out, understandably, with a stranger in her apartment,"
MacAncela then allegedly left the apartment to return to work, saying "I'm sorry, I thought you were in trouble," according to the Post.
The incident, which occurred in a security-conscious property where one-bedrooms rent for nearly $7,000 a month, has left many tenants frightened and enraged, according to the Post.
"It's inexcusable…unacceptable," Esther Cukierman, mother of a 33-year-old woman living at the address, told the Post. "You're paying a lot for [security] services…We all have a naïve sense of safety in a building like this."
