Suspect in Urine Attacks in Custody

Police have a suspect in custody in connection with the urine attacks on two female transit workers in the Bronx.

The man is suspected of tossing urine into the face of a Conductor and a Bus Operator in separate incidents on April 12th.

“This is great news for transit workers,” Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano said. “A twisted individual targeted two of our members and committed these vile attacks while they were simply doing their jobs. He needed to be caught and locked up.

But the larger problem remains. Transit workers are getting assaulted, harassed and abused, physically and verbally, all the time. The city has to do much more to protect us.

In the subway, it seems like there are more and more people with serious problems on the trains and in the stations, and some of them pose a threat, not just to workers but our riders. This has to be addressed by City Hall.”

The first attack happened at about 10:30 a.m. on a No. 6 train as it idled at the platform. The second attack happened about an hour later nearby as the bus was halted at an intersection.

The police released video images of the suspect and TWU Local 100 distributed wanted posters in the area where the vile attacks took place.

Charges against the suspect are pending.

Police nab suspect in urine attacks on Bronx MTA workers

The pee-petrator splattered a 43-year-old female train conductor on an uptown No. 6 train at the Brook Ave.-E. 138th St. station. He struck again about 45 minutes later, dumping urine on MTA bus driver Trellis Robinson as she sat behind the wheel of a Bx1 bus at the Grand Concourse and 138th St., about 15 blocks from where the first incident occurred.