{"id":381575,"date":"2025-11-15T21:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381575\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:33:15","slug":"unhinged-nyc-straphanger-arrested-after-pummeling-passenger-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381575\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged NYC straphanger arrested after pummeling passenger: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unhinged man with a box cutter was arrested after he allegedly went berserk on subway riders in Brooklyn early Saturday, \u201cyelling obscenities\u201d and \u201cflashing a light in their eyes\u201d before punching a rider in the head, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The deranged 38-year-old harassed multiple passengers on a Coney Island bound D subway just after 1 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>When the 56-year-old victim tried to calm him down, the madman slugged the do-gooder in the back of the head multiple times, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A deranged man yelled obscenities at subway riders on a D train before punching one of them in the head early Saturday, cops said. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>The beating left the victim with a bloody wound, police said. He was taken to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition, cops said. Chad Rachman\/N.Y.Post<\/p>\n<p>Alleged attacker Sapon Garcia Santos Israel, 38, was arrested in the attack, cops said.  Chad Rachman\/N.Y.Post<\/p>\n<p>Sapon Garcia Santos Israel was arrested and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensonhurst man has no prior arrests, police sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unhinged man with a box cutter was arrested after he allegedly went berserk on subway riders in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10762,1121,132597,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,28715,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-381575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-harassment","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-subways","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115555860777324232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}