Four arrested in jumping from 1 World Trade Center tower in 2013

Three extreme-skydiving enthusiasts accused of parachuting off the 1 World Trade Centre tower last year were arrested, authorities said, in a second criminal case in two weeks arising from surreptitious stunts at the nation’s tallest skyscraper. The three daredevils and someone accused of being an accomplice were facing charges including felony burglary in a 30 September leap from the building, where a teenage boy was arrested on 16 March. Authorities said the teen had slipped through a gap in a fence, eluded an inattentive security guard and spent about two hours atop the 1,776-foot-tall tower. The incidents have raised questions about security at the lower Manhattan site, which is supposed to be one of the most tightly protected in the US The site is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The New York Police Department said last fall that investigators were looking for two parachutists in dark jumpsuits seen floating near the building around 3 am. On 30 September, landing by a nearby skyscraper and walking away. It was ‘very exhilarating,’ one of the accused jumpers, Andrew Rossig, said on Monday as he and co-defendant James Brady headed to a police precinct to surrender.