Judge arrested after 'breaking into neighbour's home and stealing her underwear'
Robert Cicale 'was found to be in possession of soiled female undergarments', police say
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Your support makes all the difference.A judge who allegedly broke into a neighbour’s home and stole a young woman’s underwear has been charged with burglary.
Robert Cicale a Republican district court judge in Suffolk County, New York, was found with pairs of soiled women’s underwear, police said.
A 23-year-old woman who had spotted a man matching his description when she was alone in her house and called her mother, who in turn phoned the police.
Minutes later officers caught Cicale a few streets away.
“He was found to be in possession of soiled female undergarments that we believe were either proceeds from today’s burglary or proceeds from a prior burglary at the same location,” Suffolk County acting police commissioner Stuart Cameron told NBC New York.
Mr Cameron said it was unclear if the 49-year-old, who lives across the road, knew the young woman.
“It turns my stomach, because you look at the judge and you expect a kind of figure to look up to," a neighbour told NBC, adding: “It’s disturbing.”
Cicale, a married father of three young children, was elected a judge in 2015, having previously served as a town attorney for East Islep.
“He’s a family man,” another neighbour told ABC 7. “He’s always outside playing basketball with his kids, he’s always jogging, he’s always friendly to everybody in the neighbourhood.”
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