A vagrant was nabbed on an alleged farebeating rap — after which linked to the slashing of a Manhattan straphanger earlier this month, police stated Thursday.
Jermal Vives, 46, was noticed round 2 a.m. Sunday allegedly utilizing an emergency gate at a Washington Heights subway station to beat the fare, the NYPD stated.
Cops then decided that Vives was allegedly the identical transit maniac who attacked a 57-year-old man on Oct. 12 aboard a No. 1 practice close to the Theatre District, the division stated.
Vives, of Yonkers, was allegedly panhandling on the Broadway and West fiftieth Road station when he “turned irate” after the sufferer didn’t cough up any change.
He's accused of pulling a knife, slashing the person and pepper-spraying him, cops stated.
Vives, who has three prior busts for weapons possession and theft, was charged with assault within the Oct. 12 slashing incident.
He was additionally charged with theft of service, possession of a weapon and possession of a managed substance — which police stated was crack cocaine — within the alleged fare beat.
The Publish reported Wednesday that the MTA has quietly contracted with a non-public safety agency to police the tubes for fare-beaters to assist deal with a current uptick in transit crime.
MTA CEO Janno Lieber stated the pilot program was launched a number of weeks in the past at six Huge Apple stations, with guards posted at emergency exits.
“Overwhelmingly, the criminals are fare beaters,” Lieber defined.
The NYPD Transit Bureau hailed Vives’ arrest in a tweet on Thursday.
“The work continues – this time with our Transit District 3 workforce once they acknowledged a fare evader because the suspect wished for a current slashing. The 46-year-old repeat offender stays in custody and faces weapons possession & assault expenses,” the tweet stated.
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