Given the price of real estate and rents even in Queens I just have to wonder why the place sat idle long enough for this guy to even pull such a scam. Had it been occupied it would have been breaking and entering an occupied dwelling.
She was using it as storage, she must be able to afford it. But even if she wasn’t living in it, I would assume it would be no different from someone going on vacation and coming back and seeing all their possessions thrown out, their car gone and someone living there.
It’s an occupied dwelling. Do you think that breaking into a second home is somehow not a crime?