A repeat transit offender allegedly bit a police sergeant last week while violently resisting arrest \u2014 and was promptly sprung by a judge anyway, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
Derrick Daniels, of New Jersey, already on the NYPD\u2019s radar, was at the Brighton Beach subway station in Brooklyn when cops spotted him around 5:15 a.m. on Sept. 13, cops said.<\/p>\n
Aware of a bench warrant for his arrest, two police officers pursued Daniels, 23, according to an NYPD spokesman.<\/p>\n
A female sergeant whose arm was bitten by a transit suspect during an arrest on Sept. 13 is shown in this undated photo. DCPI<\/p>\n
\u201cThey tried to take him into custody [and] he violently resisted arrest,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when he allegedly bit the sergeant in the forearm, breaking her skin and leaving her bloody, a photo of the injury shows. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s recuperating at home, cops said. <\/p>\n
A detective also suffered injuries to his knee, police said.<\/p>\n
Police slapped Daniels with two counts of assault. He was also hit with two counts of grand larceny for alleged thefts at the Parkside Avenue station on Aug. 26 and at the Stillwell Avenue Station on Sept. 9, cops said.<\/p>\n
In both cases, Daniels took phones from people who were sleeping, and had the phones on him when he was arrested, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Train commuters wait on the platform at a subway station at the start of a workday in Manhattan. REUTERS<\/p>\n
More than half the people arrested for transit crimes so far in 2026 had three or more arrests, according to the NYPD. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Daniels has seven prior arrests,<\/a> three of them in the past year, for crime in transit, police sources said.<\/p>\n More than half the people arrested in 2026 so far for transit crimes had three or more arrests, according to police. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen we talk about transit, this guy is one of the select few<\/a>,\u201d a police source said. \u201cOur cops are laser focused on them.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Despite the bloody cop and Daniels\u2019 long rap sheet, Judge Michele Russo released him on non-monetary conditions, court records show. <\/p>\n Two police officers were assaulted, one of them bitten in the arm, while trying to arrest a repeat transit offender in Brooklyn last week. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if prosecutors asked for bail, as an email to the Brooklyn district attorney\u2019s office wasn\u2019t returned.<\/p>\n The revolving door criminal justice system is a problem in the city\u2019s transit system, a police source said.<\/p>\n \u201cClearly, the rest of the system needs to hold up their end of the bargain,\u201d the source said. \u201cWe have two cops that were injured. We\u2019re being assaulted in the transit system while we\u2019re doing our job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A repeat transit offender allegedly bit a police sergeant last week while violently resisting arrest \u2014 and was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,4234,57,9,56,63,65,64,1210,5269,58],"class_list":["post-351224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-crime","tag-judges","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-transit","tag-prosecutors","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351224","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=351224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}