Serial Trespasser Caught Bunking Down in Numerous Hamptons Estates
By: Hadassa Kalatizadeh
The posh Hamptons neighborhood has its very own ‘Goldilocks’, who has been caught letting herself in and lounging about.
As reported by the NY Post, a woman who has been walking into unlocked homes in the pricey village of Westhampton Beach. Since the end of May, Peace Ofoego, 32, has been arrested three times for trespassing, as per Westhampton Beach Police reports. She has allegedly entered at least seven properties in the village, but some of the home owners didn’t want to press charges, as per to police reports obtained by The Post. She was first spotted on Memorial Day weekend in the in Westhampton Beach area, where home rentals are as high as $250,000 for the summer.
A resident reported to the police “a black female wearing a black trench coat and sandals” wandering the backyard construction site of his four-bedroom rental property roughly a mile from the village train station. On that incident, Ofoego had told police that she had no identification or credit cards because she had recently been robbed while living in Washington, DC. She said she had traveled to New York City days ago, and had taken the Long Island Railroad to Westhampton Beach to find a hotel room in the quiet seaside town, as to the police report. After the “suspicious incident”, police helped Ofoego find a local homeless shelter where she said she wanted to charge her computer “and transfer funds to an account.” But she didn’t stay put there.
Days later, a resident called the police after finding Ofoego on the deck of their oversized $275,000 eight-bedroom rental home on tony Dune Road. She had entered from the beach through an unlocked gate and entered the home through the unlocked back deck, where she remained comfortably lounging while waiting for the police. “Subject stated she was staying at a house down the road and entered the stated residence to ask somebody about a restaurant to eat at,” said the June 2nd police report. Ofoego was charged this time with criminal trespass.
That didn’t stop her either though. Two days later, Ofoego was found “staying” in the pool house of another Dune Road property. John Mallon, the owner of the home, told police that he wished to document the incident but not press charges. While an officer was trying to find a local homeless shelter for Ofoego, “Peace began walking away,” the officer wrote in the report, adding that he warned her that if she kept wandering into homes she would be arrested for trespassing.
Again, on June 24, in a beachfront estate in Westhampton Beach, which boasts seven bedrooms and was listed for rent at $280,000 for July and August, Ofoego had walked into a bedroom on the second floor, startling the owner. “I went inside to look at the rental,” she told police who came to the scene. “You just want to arrest me. All I did was look for a rental.” As per the Post, she had told a reporter who approached her on the street one day that she had left an abusive husband in Florida and made her way to Washington, DC, and then New York.
Police are advising residents of the peaceful village to make sure they lock their doors and gates.
