John McEneaney and Mindy Canarick allegedly took a blowtorch to Jennifer McLeggan’s house one night, wore blackface, threw feces on her lawn, left four dead squirrels in her yard, and said that McLeggan could be “erased”
Photo: John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock In July, Jennifer McLeggan — a 39-year-old Black single mom who lives in Valley Stream, New York — posted a sign in the doorway of her home. On it, she accused her two white neighbors, John McEneaney, 57, and his live-in girlfriend Mindy Canarick, 53, of several abuses, and concluded, “I live in FEAR for my life at home.”
On Monday, police arrested McEneaney and Canarick and charged them with several misdemeanors. The pair have allegedly harassed McLeggan for three years. Canarick was charged with criminal tampering in the third degree, and McEneaney with criminal mischief in the fourth degree and harassment in the first degree. The couple were arraigned at the Hempstead District Court and subsequently released.
George Otero, another neighbor, told CBS2 of the arrests, “It’s about time … Caucasian people, [McEneaney] doesn’t bother. But if you’re anything darker than he is he gives you a hard time.” ABC7 reported in July, soon after McLeggan’s sign was posted, that other people of color in the neighborhood said McEneaney harassed them, too, when they first moved to the area. Nonetheless, prosecutors said that investigators did not find evidence of a hate crime.
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