BROOKLINE, Mass. — Police on Monday arrested a man they say broke into a mansion owned by current Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, model Gisele Bundchen.
Police in Brookline, just outside Boston, responded to the home at 5:55 a.m. after a security company reported that multiple alarms had gone off in the house and said they were monitoring a subject on camera.
Police said they found Zanini Cineus, 34, lying on a couch in the basement. A spokesman for the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said Cineus, who was described as homeless, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday afternoon in Brookline District Court on charges of breaking and entering, attempted larceny and trespassing.
The house was unoccupied. Brady and his family still own the home but moved to Florida after he signed with the Buccaneers in the offseason.
Brookline Police said Cineus had several active arrest warrants, including a failure-to-appear warrant stemming from incidents that occurred in Foxborough, Mass., last October. Cineus was ordered to stay away from Gillette Stadium after police accused him of stealing a Tom Brady jersey worth an estimated $10,000 from the Patriots’ Hall of Fame at the stadium. Court records from that incident listed his home address in Providence, R.I.
At Monday’s arraignment, a prosecutor moved to have Cineus’ bail revoked on the previous charges and asked for a $5,000 bail and a no-contact order for the Brady home that includes GPS monitoring. Judge Mary Dacey White took no action on the requests and ordered Cineus held in custody pending a competency evaluation on Tuesday. His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
The 12,112-square-foot, five-bedroom Brady-Bundchen home is located on the ninth hole of the Chestnut Hill Country Club and was listed for sale for $39.5 million in August 2019. The five-acre property includes a guest house, pool and a driveway that can accommodate 20 cars, according to Boston Magazine. Less than two months later, the sales price was reduced to $33.5 million. In a now-deleted real estate listing, a video of the home’s interior featured a large, beige U-shaped couch in the home’s basement “screening room.” The home is now an off-market listing, so the asking price is unclear, The Boston Globe reported this month.
The Associated Press and ESPN reporter Tisha Thompson contributed to this report.
