{"id":381278,"date":"2026-10-24T00:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381278\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:24:47","slug":"5-men-charged-with-trespassing-in-2-manhattan-manhole-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381278\/","title":{"rendered":"5 men charged with trespassing in 2 Manhattan manhole cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"kv3t4\">A total of five men were arrested on trespassing and other charges in two separate manhole cases in New York City, according to police and criminal complaints revealed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4djrl\">Two men who \u201csmelled like sewage\u201d were found on Sept. 30 on a Manhattan street corner \u201csoaking wet,\u201d according to a complaint. They told police they had gone into the sewer looking for jewelry.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4sv5d\">Guenis Martinez, 33, and Wilfredo Teran Briceno, 23, were among five people arrested in two separate manhole cases in Upper Manhattan since late September.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9og0d\">Luis Chaparro, 28, and Jean Rosa, 31, were also arrested on the same charges in a separate case, according to police and criminal complaints.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bqeh0\">All five people were charged with third-degree criminal trespass and trespass, both misdemeanors, according to the complaints and court records.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bttca\">Martinez and Teran Briceno were arrested after the pair were caught climbing out of a manhole in Inwood. A third person, 24-year-old Xavier Guevara Lizcano, was found sitting in a nearby car waiting for them.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e2dh6\">Four of them pleaded not guilty at their arraignments and were released without bail earlier this month, court records show. Rosa does not appear in online court records.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9vslm\">Lawyers for four of the men did not return messages seeking comment. An attorney for Guevara Lizcano declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f9tbt\">The city\u2019s Department of Environmental Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/manhole-mystery-continues-as-3-more-people-seen-climbing-out-of-sewer-nypd-says\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">has warned<\/a> that entering the sewers is both illegal and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"74cve\">The first case began around 11 p.m. on Sept. 29, when a 911 call brought officers to Nagle Avenue in Inwood, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"22dog\">An officer found Guevara Lizcano in the driver\u2019s seat of a black Nissan Rogue, which he said was his, parked about a foot from a manhole cover, according to the complaint. Police found a crowbar and a screwdriver in the trunk.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7dk2s\">Guevara Lizcano told police two people had paid him $200 that night to drive them to manholes where they could look for jewelry, the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5bcm8\">Later that night, a detective saw two people pop their heads out of a manhole on Nagle Avenue, then lower the cover and go back down. About 20 minutes later, a sergeant found Martinez and Teran Briceno at Broadway and Dyckman Street, the complaint says.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cj5uv\">All three are due back in court Nov. 18, court records show.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f5va4\">In a separate case, shortly after midnight on Oct. 4, a police lieutenant saw two men standing over a manhole at Indian Road and West 218th Street while a third person climbed in and put the cover back over the opening, according to a second complaint.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5nesr\">Rosa and Chaparro were arrested at the scene. Police and the complaint did not say why the men were there, or identify the third person.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ci01s\">Police previously <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/pair-accused-of-sewer-spelunking-in-ues-manhole-told-cops-they-were-looking-for-gold\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">arrested two Queens men<\/a> after they were seen surfacing through a sewer near Park Avenue and East 61st Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of five men were arrested on trespassing and other charges in two separate manhole cases in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-381278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}