Furniture store owner who ran two illegal migrant shelters busted for starting third pop-up hostel in abandoned library: NYPD
NY Post
A Queens furniture store owner busted this week for running two illegal boarding shelters for West African migrants — including one housing dozens in a cramped, hazardous basement — also operated a third pop-up hostel in an abandoned library, The Post has learned.
But Ebou Sarr, 47, was busted for that, too, back in January.
When cops found the wannabe franchiser inside the chained-up Old Fordham Library in The Bronx, he told officers they were walking into “our migrant shelter,” court documents state.
“I run it,” Sarr told police, according to a criminal complaint. “I help these people because they have nowhere to go. Shelters won’t accept us. I have proof of residency from the mayor … I have a business up the street, but this is where I live.”
Cops hit him with two counts of trespassing.
But the charges — which he must answer in court April 16 — don’t seem to have deterred the Senegalese immigrant, who argued he took matters into his own hands because the city wasn’t stepping up.
