New York Man Charged with Stalking Sheryl Crow
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 7:46 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Navy diver was charged on Wednesday with three counts of stalking and harassing Grammy Award-winning singer Sheryl Crow.
Bail was set at $15,000 cash or a $45,000 bond for Ambrose Kappos, 37, of New York, who was also charged with burglary for breaking into the Hammerstein Ballroom near New York's Herald Square on Monday when Crow was rehearsing for a benefit show. If convicted, Kappos could face seven years in prison.
Security officers at the ballroom told police they turned Kappos away after he told them he wanted to see the singer. They said he returned a few hours later and said: "I'm her twin. We're spiritually connected. I am going to meet her," according to the complaint.
Crow's bodyguards, who held Kappos until police arrived to arrest him, told police Kappos had been following the singer-songwriter for several months.
According to the complaint filed in Manhattan criminal court, Kappos told detectives he "followed a bird to Sheryl Crow's father's house in Missouri and knocked on his door to ask for a date with her. Mr. Crow refused his request."
Kappos' court-appointed lawyer, Stan Hickman, said it was doubtful his client would be able to raise the money to be released. He is due back in court on Friday to learn if he has been indicted on the charges.
Bail was set at $15,000 cash or a $45,000 bond for Ambrose Kappos, 37, of New York, who was also charged with burglary for breaking into the Hammerstein Ballroom near New York's Herald Square on Monday when Crow was rehearsing for a benefit show. If convicted, Kappos could face seven years in prison.
Security officers at the ballroom told police they turned Kappos away after he told them he wanted to see the singer. They said he returned a few hours later and said: "I'm her twin. We're spiritually connected. I am going to meet her," according to the complaint.
Crow's bodyguards, who held Kappos until police arrived to arrest him, told police Kappos had been following the singer-songwriter for several months.
According to the complaint filed in Manhattan criminal court, Kappos told detectives he "followed a bird to Sheryl Crow's father's house in Missouri and knocked on his door to ask for a date with her. Mr. Crow refused his request."
Kappos' court-appointed lawyer, Stan Hickman, said it was doubtful his client would be able to raise the money to be released. He is due back in court on Friday to learn if he has been indicted on the charges.