You can be ‘erased’
Police in Valley Stream, New York, on Monday arrested and charged John McEneaney, 57, and girlfriend Mindy Canarick, 53,
The white couple were accused of harassment and intimidation against Jennifer McLeggan, a 39-year-old black woman who lived next door
The claimant alleges McEneaney and Canarick tactic includes taunting her with blackface, brandishing guns, repeatedly dumping dog feces in her yard, and shooting dead a squirrel which was then left in her yrd’
McLeggan moved into neighborhood after buying home on Sapir Street in 2017, since then, she claims she has been subjected to sustained harassment
She also claims neighbors have shot target practice in yard using pellet gun
McEneaney has denied claims, saying he only wishes to ‘live in peace’
The couple were arraigned in Nassau County court on Monday and released on their on their own cognizance, but will return to court in October
Victim: Jennifer McLeggan [photo] speaks to the media outside her home. Two white next-door neighbors have been arrested for allegedly harassing McLeggan, a 39-year-old black woman who moved into the Long Island neighborhood of Valley Stream, New York, after buying a home in 2017
John McEneaney, 57, and Mindy Canarick, 53, of Valley Stream, New York, were charged by the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors charged McEneaney with criminal mischief and harassment while Canarick was charged with criminal tampering, a spokesperson for the DA’s office said.
Both are due to be arraigned via remote online hearing on Monday.
The couple is alleged to have routinely harassed Jennifer McLeggan, a 39-year-old black woman who moved into the neighborhood after buying a home on Sapir Street in 2017.
You can “‘be erased.”: Jennifer McLeggan [seen with her young daughter Immaculate], alleges that she’s been subjected to a three-year long campaign of racist intimidation by her next-door neighbors. The couple are both white
Jennifer McLeggan, a single mother says she is the target of ongoing threats and racist harassment at her Long Island home.
McLeggan, a registered nurse, owns a home on Sapir Street in Valley Stream. She claims a man has been throwing feces and dead squirrels in her yard.
McLeggan says she has a video of him committing the acts, and he has allegedly threatened her saying she can “‘be erased.”
The mother-of-one, said McEneaney, who is white, told her to ‘go back to where I came from,’ had his friends spit on her yard, has taken a blow torch to her house at night and threatened that she can be ‘erased.’
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Last month, she posted a message on her front door detailing the abuse and harassment she alleges she was had to endure at the hands of her nextdoor neighbors, a middleaged white couple and their friends
The sign explaining her abuse and harassment takes up the entire front door, [photo]. She mentions filming her racist nextdoor neighbors ‘spit and throw feces’ on her yard
Jennifer McLeggan used secret cameras to record her racist neighbors ‘spit and throw feces’ on her yard
McLeggan posted several videos taken from her windows showing a man tossing something onto her yard and walking around with various guns.
She said police told her they can’t make an arrest unless she is harmed.
Twitter and Instagram posts about the situation last month prompted supporters to show up and protest.
McEneaney told Newsday earlier this week that he just wants to ‘live in peace’ and that he denies any harassment.
‘I just want peace … All I ever wanted was to live in peace,’ he said.
‘My family has lived in Valley Stream since 1964 and we’ve never had a problem with anyone. I wish her and her child well,’ McEneaney said of McLeggan.
When McLeggan moved in, she said her neighbors were giving her a hard time over a supposedly unkempt yard. Since then, however, things have escalated, she said.
‘I bought the property when I was pregnant, and this is the truth, the property was in bad shape,’ she told WABC-TV.
‘I’m trying my best to make every effort to clean the property. I’ve done my best to clean the property.’
![John McEneaney, [left], and girlfriend Mindy Canarick, [right] 4](https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/John-McEneaney-left-and-girlfriend-Mindy-Canarick-right-4.jpg?resize=620%2C348&ssl=1)
McEneaney [right], told Newsday earlier this week that he just wants to ‘live in peace’ and that he denies any harassment
Still taken from Jennifer McLeggan’s security camera shows a man on the property next door to her using a pellet gun for target practice
Another still from the security camera footage also shows a man wearing what appears to be blackface on her property, late at night
As part off the harassment campaign, McLeggan said, her next-door neighbor threw a dead squirrel onto her property as an intimidation tactic 
Video shows McLeggan’s neighbor John McEneaney walking around carrying a handgun. He was also seen a rifle, but he told authorities they were all pellet guns
‘I mow the lawn, when there’s snow out here I’m shoveling the snow by myself,’ she said.
‘I’m doing what I can to keep the property clean.’
But she says her neighbors have been throwing dog feces onto her property, leading to fines.
‘I kept on noticing dog feces,’ she said. ‘I kept on noticing ticket ordinances from the Valley Stream Village town.
‘I keep getting tickets. I keep seeing dog feces.’
‘I installed a camera here. I caught my neighbor throwing dog feces in front of my property. I took that video to court, and I won a judgment [of more than $5,000].’
Since her case made nationwide news last month, a GoFundMe page has raised nearly $50,000 to help McLeggan install a security system in her home.
McEneaney denied McLeggan’s allegation that he wore blackface and used a blowtorch in his home to intimidate her.
He said the only time he’s worn black face was to put on a ski mask when shoveling snow.
Surveillance video footage shows McEneaney spitting over the fence and onto McLeggan’s property
Law enforcement have been called over 50 times since the altercation between the neighbors began and escalated. Police said without evidence of physical harm, they could not intervene, McLeggan said
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McEneaney told Newsday that he used a blowtorch to light carburetor cleaner on fire in his yard because he was bored one night.
He said that he agreed to police officers’ request to stop shooting target practice with his pellet gun after McLeggan complained.
McEneaney claimed that he fears for his life after getting ‘a lot of death threats’ on social media.
In total, more than 50 calls to the police have been made by the two neighbors against each other since McLeggan moved into the area three years ago.
McLeggan’s lawyer, Heather Palmore, says that her client’s neighbors’ ‘aggression…went on too long.’
‘But it’s more representative of the overall state of the poor relationship between the police and the Black community here on Long Island.’
Palmore added: ‘The Nassau County District Attorney has been very professional in handling this matter, they gave Jennifer a forum to bring her complaints forward.
‘The police have been to Jennifer’s house I can’t tell you how many times over the last three years and nothing was done by the police county department.’
McEneaney and Canarick were arraigned Monday and released on their own recognizance.
They are expected to appear in court again in October.
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