{"id":242330,"date":"2026-05-24T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:45:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-18-year-old-man-teen-charged-with-assaulting-mta-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242330\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 18 Year Old Man Teen Charged With Assaulting Mta Bus Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy have been charged after a 45\u2011year\u2011old MTA bus driver was hit in the face with a pellet gun in Mill Basin on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, 18\u2011year\u2011old Yonathan Asulin has been charged with two counts of assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon. The 16\u2011year\u2011old is charged with two counts of assault and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the MTA worker was struck with the pellet gun at East 56th Street and Avenue U.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The bus driver had minor injuries and was not hospitalized. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy have been charged after a 45\u2011year\u2011old MTA bus driver was hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-242330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242330","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=242330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}