Taylor Swift's Stalker Sentenced To 6 Months In Jail

TRIBECA, NY — A man who stalked Taylor Swift and tried to break into her Tribeca apartment was sentenced to six months in jail on Wednesday, prosecutors said.

Mohammed Jaffar, who showed up repeatedly outside her Franklin Street home, was also sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to continue mental health treatment at a facility in his home state of Michigan, prosecutors said.

Jaffar pleaded guilty to attempted burglary in the second degree on May 7.

He was arrested last year after multiple incidents where he was found outside the pop star's Manhattan home. After years of tweeting at Swift, Jaffar tried to contact the singer's management team 60 times over a two-week period before he began showing up near her home in 2017.

Video surveillance in Swift's building showed Jaffar loitering inside the building and on her roof deck, prosecutors said. In a separate incident, Jaffar rang Swift's doorbell continuously for an hour until he was asked to leave, according to the New York Daily News.

He was eventually arrested in March 2017.

Jaffar's brother, Ali Jaffar, has said that Jaffar was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and called for leniency from the judge before his brother was sentenced, the Daily News reported.

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