{"id":191998,"date":"2026-04-10T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191998\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:05:10","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-man-accused-of-punching-an-mta-bus-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191998\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Man Accused Of Punching An Mta Bus Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man from the Bronx has been arrested for accusations that he punched an MTA bus operator.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Michael Lightly, 41, is facing assault charges for an incident in March at the BX3 bus stop on West Fordham Road and University Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say Lightly got into a fight with the bus operator before punching him in the face. The operator sustained a laceration to his lip and was taken to SBH Health System by EMS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from the Bronx has been arrested for accusations that he punched an MTA bus operator. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-191998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}