Robert De Niro's New York City townhouse burgled while he was home - Page Six

A pistillate burglar was caught going done Robert De Niro’s Upper East Side townhouse aboriginal Monday — grabbing Christmas gifts from underneath the actor’s histrion and playing with his iPad, instrumentality enforcement sources told The Post.

A “known burglar,” 30-year-old Shanice Aviles broke into the “The Irishman” star’s location astir 2:30 a.m.

Officers with the NYPD’s 19th Precinct nationalist information squad had spotted Aviles trying to unfastened doors to commercialized buildings earlier she made her mode wrong De Niro’s home.

“She was stealing Christmas presents,” a constabulary authoritative confirmed to The Post, adding that determination was nary enactment betwixt the histrion and the burglar.

A known burglar, Shanice Aviles broke into the location astir 2:30 a.m.

The “Casino” star, 79, and his girl had been upstairs and were unaware of what was going on, sources said. Cops busted Aviles, who has a full of 26 anterior arrests, astatine the scene, and charges were pending earlier successful the morning. 

Aviles began her crimes, which are mostly burglaries, during the coronavirus pandemic, our sources said. She was picked up for 7 burglaries betwixt Nov. 25 and Dec. 8 connected the Upper East Side, they added.

De Niro and his girl had been upstairs erstwhile the burglar entered the location looking for Christmas presents.G.N.Miller/NYPost

Reps for De Niro didn’t instantly instrumentality Page Six’s petition for comment.

A lifelong New York resident, De Niro sold his West Village townhouse of 37 years for $9.5 cardinal successful 2012. At the tallness of the pandemic, the “Goodfellas” histrion relocated to his location successful upstate New York.

“He intends to reside successful Gardiner for the foreseeable future,” his lawyer Caroline Krauss said of De Niro — who grew up successful Manhattan — astatine the time. “He is aft each 76 and successful the class of radical for which COVID-19 is dangerous.”