Who is the New Jersey teenager who snuck out of his house in the dead of night, slipped past multiple layers of state-of-the-art security -- including a sleeping guard -- and climbed to the top of One World Trade Center?
Teenager's Climb to Top of World Trade Center Is Under Investigation
That would 16-year-old parkour enthusiast Justin Casquejo of Weehawken, who had himself a little 104-story adventure over the weekend. Casquejo was arrested on Sunday morning and charged with criminal trespassing. But not before he conquered the top of the tallest building in the western hemisphere.
According to Port Authority Police, the kid climbed through an opening in the exterior fence surrounding construction site, made his way up some scaffolding to the sixth floor, took an elevator to the 88th, climbed the staircase to the 104th, snuck past the snoozing security personnel, and made his way on to the roof, where he hung out for about two hours, including climbing all the way up the building's antenna.
The "inattentive" security guard was fired.
