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# Local Arrested For Vandalizing Borough President’s Car
- URL: https://bklyner.com/local-arrested-for-vandalizing-borough-presidents-car-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2012-01-23T18:45:11.000Z
- Updated: 2012-01-23T18:22:05.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: alexander breytman, arthur schack, donald schecter, ocean pkwy, #API-Imported

An area resident went on an “antigovernment rampage” in Downtown Brooklyn last Thursday, vandalizing 13 cars, including that of Borough President Marty Markowitz, his senior adviser and several judges.

[The Post reports](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/beep%5Fauto%5Fis%5FrvWQBFsU6DpS9zMLDawMhK?ref=bklyner.com):

> Alex Breytman, 46, was arrested Thursday afternoon in a state supreme court garage on Adams Street. The Ocean Parkway resident, believed to be emotionally disturbed, had on him a knife and a bottle of Zip Strip paint remover.

> He was charged with 13 counts of criminal mischief. Each car suffered about $250 in damage, the sources said.

Breytman lives in an apartment building on Ocean Parkway, near Neptune Avenue. And, apparently, he has a history of instability.

Around this time last year,[ Breytman was in court suing a lawyer](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/abusive%5Fplaintiff%5Fbarred%5Ffrom%5Fsuing%5FcbX81o6IT0gCwKPBfrah7J?ref=bklyner.com#ixzz1kIuV44q9) who previously represented him in a[ landlord-tenant dispute](http://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2009/2009-51187.html?ref=bklyner.com). The charges? Well, no one really figured that out, since they were presented in a slew of rambling “invectives,” [according to Gothamist](http://gothamist.com/2011/02/11/lawsuit-happy%5Fman%5Fbarred%5Ffrom%5Fsuing.php?ref=bklyner.com). Breytman bombarded his former attorney Donald Schecter with legal filings and letters, seeking more than $20 million, and accused him of anti-Jewish discrimination in the vein of “Gabble antiseptic rant against Jew in Germany.”

The Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice overseeing the case, Arthur Schack, interpreted that as a reference to Hitler’s minister of propaganda [Joseph Goebbels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FGoebbels?ref=bklyner.com), and ultimately ordered Breytman to stop suing his former lawyer.