{"id":344303,"date":"2026-09-11T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344303\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:24:49","slug":"woman-arrested-in-subway-stabbing-in-brooklyn-had-fake-gun-in-purse-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344303\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested in subway stabbing in Brooklyn had fake gun in purse: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The straphanger busted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/10\/woman-stabbed-jay-st-metrotech-subway-station-morning-rush-hour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slashing another woman<\/a> at a Brooklyn subway station was released without bail after she was arraigned, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>An assistant district attorney asked that Jahlayah Blondel be held on $10,000 bail but Judge Masateru Marubashi released her on non-monetary conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Blondel ran from the scene at the Jay. St-MetroTech subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and tossed away her knife, before quickly surrendering, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old victim suffered minor slash wounds to her shoulder and is recovering.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at 9:20 a.m. Thursday on the mezzanine level of the station.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the women do not know each other but that they got into an argument as the victim was exiting the train.<\/p>\n<p>The quarrel continued up the escalator leading to the mezzanine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, police found an imitation pistol in the suspect\u2019s bag. It was not used during the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Blondel was charged with assault, weapons possession and menacing. She pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Felony assaults continue to be a problem in the city\u2019s subway system \u2014 up 8%, to 441 versus 410 at the same point last year \u2014 even as overall transit crime is down 1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The straphanger busted for slashing another woman at a Brooklyn subway station was released without bail after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,129086,38110,9,24,63,849,103,10524],"class_list":["post-344303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fake-gun","tag-felony-assault","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-subway","tag-nypd","tag-subway-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344303","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=344303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}