Chad Irish, Ex-Con Charged in NYC Woman’s Sleeping Bag Death, Has a Twin With a Lengthy Rap Sheet

An ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet has been taken into custody and charged after a Big Apple woman was found shot dead, wrapped in a sleeping bag and dumped outside with the trash, police sources told The Post Tuesday.

Chad Irish, 55, — who has a twin brother by the same name with his own rap sheet — was charged with concealment of a human corpse, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing after he was brought in for questioning on Monday over the death of 31-year-old Yazmeen Williams, the sources said.

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He has not been charged with killing the 31-year-old victim so far but is the only person of interest tied to the slaying, police sources said.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a briefing that cops have surveillance footage of a man in a wheelchair dragging the body along.

“We backtracked that video to the Strauss Houses to where our eventual perpetrator, Chad Irish, is removing the package, sleeping bag, from the location in his wheelchair,” Kenny said.

He said cops identified Williams as the victim from neighbors.

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Irish has 21 priors to his name, sources said.

He served three years in prison after he was convicted of attempted arson for trying to blow up his uncle’s home in the Bronx back in 1994 by dislodging a gas pipe and two propane tanks, sparking an explosion.

Police said the menacing and weapons charges that were lodged against him this week were not tied to Williams’ death but were from outstanding warrants that stemmed from a prior incident.

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Meanwhile, his twin brother, who also uses the name Chad Irish, is on parole for robbery and assault, law enforcement sources said.