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
The deranged 38-year-old harassed multiple passengers on a Coney Island bound D subway just after 1 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n
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
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
The beating left the victim with a bloody wound, police said. He was taken to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition, cops said. Chad Rachman\/N.Y.Post<\/p>\n
Alleged attacker Sapon Garcia Santos Israel, 38, was arrested in the attack, cops said. Chad Rachman\/N.Y.Post<\/p>\n
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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211,98,22958,57,9,56,63,65,64,1687,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-40802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-harassment","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-subways","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802","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=40802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}