A pair of beleaguered Brooklyn landlords whose properties were allegedly taken over by a convicted sex abuser facing an attempted murder charge have finally gotten their buildings back.
The NYPD and a city marshal arrived Friday to oust 10 people who had been living illegally in the trio of rundown Neptune Avenue homes owned by Mohammed Choudary and Boysin Lorick, who had struggled for years to boot the squatters.
When the pair bought the homes in 2019 for $1.3 million, Peter Fonseca, 45, was living behind one of the garage’s and refused to leave, according to court papers.





Fonseca and his wife then began to rent out units in the homes illegally during the pandemic, the landlords claimed, while the city Department of Buildings levied more than $370,000 in violations and fines for the crumbling structures.
The landlords had said they couldn’t address the problems, and stop the fines, because the squatters wouldn’t let them in.
“You have to arrest me, I’m not leaving, I’m not going anywhere,” one elderly squatter cried as authorities tried to usher him out. A few hours later, he got in a minivan and left.


The three homes were eventually emptied after eight hours.
The landlords said they’re planning on ending the nightmare altogether and selling the properties.




“It was bad enough that people were giving [us] a hard time but when the city comes after you?” Lorick said. “We’re in this business so long, we’ve never seen anything like it. We just happened to step in a mine.”



