WTC Ironworker Among Trade Center BASE Jumpers

Daily Beast:

The daredevil who made the helmet-cam video of himself parachuting with two buddies from atop 1 World Trade Center is a legendarily skilled ironworker who helped build that very same tower.
In fact, 32-year-old James Brady was one of the ironworkers who set in place the beam on the 104th floor that had been signed by President Obama and the First Lady.

The video is pretty cool, but the most intriguing part of the story is how they got caught:

And they might have gotten away with it had a security guard at the Goldman Sachs building across from the World Trade Center not seen one of them hurriedly packing up something out front on West Street.
The guard called 911 to report what a police official would later describe as “something suspicious.” Police responded and a check of the Goldman Sachs surveillance cameras showed three parachutists alighting on the pavement.
What the camera did not show was where the jump had begun. They conceivably could have leapt from a number of tall buildings and then drifted over to where they landed.....
Detectives checked out cameras in the surrounding area and saw that a car had been circling, slowing down at times, pulling over, then moving, then pulling over again just within view, a figure in dark clothes getting out.
But the images were too dim and indistinct to make out a face or a license plate number. The detectives were only able to establish the car’s make and model.
The detectives expanded the search, checking cameras in a widening area along with license plate readers at bridges and tunnels for cars of that description. They narrowed the possibilities to a small list and began background checks on the owners.
One of the cars proved to be registered to a well known family of ironworkers. The detectives determined that one of them, James Brady, had worked on the tower. A records check showed that he had been arrested along with three other people in December of 2012 for attempting to jump off a 33-storey tower in Co-Op City in the Bronx.
The next step was to subpoena Brady’s cell phone records. Police say they show that he was in the vicinity of the World Trade Center at the time of the jump.
A check of Brady’s calls in that time frame led detectives to 33-year-old Andrew Rossig, who had been arrested with him in the Bronx. Two other persons of interest, 27-year-old Marco Markovich and 29-year-old Kyle Hartwell, had not been among the earlier four, but detectives were convinced that they had been there for the World Trade Center jump.
In January, detectives executed search warrants on the homes of the four suspects. They discovered helmet camera footage that established the jump had indeed been from the top of 1 World Trade Center.

"and I would have gotten away with it if not for the security cameras and cell phone records."

I'll stick with my assessment that I don't think it is a good idea to fuck with ironworkers.  They be crazy.  I don't think this story undermines that belief.

Ironworkers James Brady, left, and Billy Geoghan release the cables from a steel beam after connecting it on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center, on August 2, 2012 in New York. The beam was signed by President Barack Obama with the note: “We remember, We rebuild, We come back stronger!” during a ceremony at the construction site June 14. Since then the beam has been adorned with the autographs of workers and police officers at the site. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)