Parolee busted in violent attacks on two NYC women, one on the subway

A parolee was busted in separate assaults on two ladies in Brooklyn — one who he allegedly pummeled and robbed in a subway station and the opposite who he's accused of groping, police mentioned Thursday.

Donald Sutherland, 34, — who has an tried assault conviction on his file — was contained in the Brooklyn Public Library on 18th Avenue close to East Second Road Wednesday when safety guards acknowledged him from information protection of the brutal mugging on the Avenue I station in Midwood a day earlier, police mentioned. 

In that case, a 43-year-old straphanger was standing on the platform round 6:30 a.m. Tuesday when Sutherland approached her with a knife and repeatedly punched her, authorities mentioned. 

Donald Sutherland, 34, allegedly punched a girl and snatched her glasses and cellphone on the Avenue I station in Midwood Tuesday morning.

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He grabbed her glasses and her cellphone, which fell to the bottom throughout the mindless beating, police mentioned. 

The sufferer refused medical consideration for a minimize on her left eye socket, authorities mentioned. 

Sutherland was charged with second-degree theft, third-degree felony possession of a weapon and menacing in connection to that incident, police mentioned.

He was then linked to an assault on one other girl, 19, from round midnight on Oct. 11, cops mentioned. 

The teenager, who had simply completed work, took the F prepare from Manhattan to Brooklyn when Sutherland adopted her right into a Ceremony Assist on Smith Road close to Warren Road in Cobble Hill, cops mentioned. 

He approached her from behind and touched her buttocks, sparking an “trade of phrases,” cops mentioned. 

“What occurred, you don’t like black n—s?” the suspect allegedly snarled earlier than slugging the lady on the left facet of the face. 

Police additionally linked Sutherland to an incident by which he allegedly groped a girl inside a Cobble Hill Ceremony Assist Oct. 11, cops mentioned.

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She suffered swelling and ache however refused medical consideration.

Sutherland was charged with second-degree assault, forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse, and second-degree harassment in connection to that incident, authorities mentioned.

Sutherland has six prior arrests, together with a 2016 bust for assault on a police officer, cops mentioned. He has additionally been nabbed for felony possession of a weapon and first-degree theft, cops mentioned.

On-line data point out he was out on parole in connection to an tried assault conviction.

He was held in state jail starting in October of final yr and paroled this previous February, the data present.