This article updated with incident locations.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (Aug. 11, 2026) — A 49-year-old man is jailed and facing 16 felony counts of third-degree burglary in New Rochelle City Court, with bail set and further proceedings scheduled for later this month, according to New York State court records.
Wayneworth Walcott, whose birth year is listed in court records as 1977, was arraigned on the New Rochelle felony charges Aug. 10, 2026. He is being held at the Westchester County Department of Correction in Valhalla, according to Department of Correction records, which show he was booked into custody Aug. 2, 2026.
Each of the 16 New Rochelle cases charges a single count of burglary in the third degree under Penal Law 140.20, a felony that under New York law permits a judge to set bail. Court records show bail was set at Walcott’s arraignment, though the record reviewed by Talk of the Sound lists a nominal $1 figure across each bail instrument type — cash, insured bond and partially secured bond — rather than a specific dollar amount. The actual bail amount was not specified in the record. Talk of the Sound has asked the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office to confirm the figure.
The incident dates tied to the 16 cases fall into two clusters: eight dated between May 22, 2025, and Oct. 18, 2025, and four dated between April 2, 2026, and July 27, 2026, four of which were tied to an arrest warrant issued Aug. 4, 2026, and executed Aug. 10, 2026. A 16th case is dated April 10, 2026.
Two of the case numbers, CR-03759-26 and CR-03763-26, list an identical incident date of July 6, 2025, and an identical arrest number in court records. Talk of the Sound has asked the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office to clarify whether the two case numbers represent separate incidents or a duplicate entry.
Walcott is represented by the Legal Aid Society of Westchester in the New Rochelle cases. The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office is prosecuting.
Court records also show two additional pending cases against Walcott in neighboring jurisdictions. In White Plains City Court, he faces a misdemeanor petit larceny charge under Penal Law 155.25, tied to an April 4, 2026, incident and a June 24, 2026, arrest. In Mount Vernon City Court, he faces a felony charge of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance under Penal Law 220.06, tied to a May 5, 2026, arrest; he was released on his own recognizance at his first appearance in that case before later being arraigned.
All 16 New Rochelle cases are scheduled for further proceedings Aug. 31, 2026.
Prior Record
Court and news records reviewed by Talk of the Sound show three prior cases tied to a Wayneworth Walcott of Mount Vernon, N.Y., predating the current New Rochelle charges.
In White Plains City Court, Walcott was convicted after a nonjury trial of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor under Penal Law 260.10(1), for driving with his 8-year-old son in the car while intoxicated and impaired by drugs, according to a May 9, 2014, decision by the Appellate Term of the state Supreme Court, Second Department, which affirmed the conviction on appeal. The underlying incident occurred July 16, 2012, when Walcott arrived at the Westchester County Department of Probation for a scheduled appointment and exhibited signs of intoxication; a breath test indicated the presence of alcohol and a urine test indicated the presence of marijuana and cocaine metabolites, according to the decision. The trial court had been rendered by White Plains City Court Judge Barbara A. Leak on Jan. 14, 2013.
In Worcester Superior Court in Massachusetts, a Wayneworth Walcott, 39, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was placed on two years’ probation after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, a charge amended from trafficking in cocaine, according to a July 12, 2016, Telegram & Gazette courthouse records report. Conditions of probation included remaining drug- and alcohol-free and submitting to random drug testing, the report said.
In Scarborough, Maine, a Wayneworth Walcott, 33, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was arrested March 26, 2010, on charges of operating after a license suspension or revocation and on a warrant from another agency, according to a Portland Press Herald police log from that period.
Talk of the Sound cross-checked the ages and hometown listed in the Maine and Massachusetts records against Walcott’s 1977 birth year as listed in current Westchester County court records; the details are consistent with the same individual. The Maine and Massachusetts records list Mount Vernon, N.Y., as Walcott’s address in 2010 and 2016, respectively; Talk of the Sound has not independently confirmed his current or most recent place of residence. Talk of the Sound found no record of Walcott in the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s incarcerated lookup system or in the Maine Department of Corrections’ adult resident search, indicating no state prison sentence in either state under this name.
The charges against Walcott in the current New Rochelle, White Plains and Mount Vernon cases are accusations. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
Talk of the Sound has been unable to determine which neighborhoods or streets were affected by the 16 New Rochelle incidents; that information was not included in the court records reviewed for this story. Given the number of cases involved, readers are likely wondering where these burglaries occurred and whether their own neighborhood or property was among them. Talk of the Sound has requested that information directly, including through a Freedom of Information Law request filed with the New Rochelle Police Department, and through separate inquiries sent to NRPD and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office. This story will be updated with that information as it becomes available; developments that substantially change the facts reported here will be published as a separate story.
Update, Aug. 11, 2026 (revised): New Rochelle Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division has clarified and corrected an earlier account provided to Talk of the Sound. According to Det. Lt. Brian Fagan, NRPD issued a trespass warning to Walcott at the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue in New Rochelle on April 14, 2025 (NRPD case CR#25-001348) after prosecutors declined to pursue a larceny charge against him there. Walcott is accused of returning to the store 16 times after that trespass warning was issued, forming the basis for the 16 burglary charges. Fagan said the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office pursued only the burglary charges in those cases and did not file separate criminal contempt charges, consistent with what Talk of the Sound found in its review of eCourts records.
Fagan also said an assault on a loss-prevention officer referenced in an earlier account did not occur in New Rochelle. According to Fagan, the officer worked at a store in Mount Vernon, where the assault occurred, before later taking a position at the New Rochelle Home Depot; Fagan did not specify which store in Mount Vernon, and Fagan said NRPD does not have further information on that incident, which would fall under a different police department’s jurisdiction. Talk of the Sound has not independently confirmed the Mount Vernon incident.
This article was prepared with the assistance of AI tools under the direction and editing of Robert Cox.
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