Police are asking for help in identifying a man wanted for assaulting an on-duty MTA bus driver. <\/p>\n
It happened Friday just after 5:30 p.m. at the corner of 3rd Ave and E 163rd Street. <\/p>\n
The 42-year-old MTA employee was operating the BX 15 bus when a man got on and started arguing with him. <\/p>\n
The man then punched the driver, according to authorities. <\/p>\n
Police say the suspect took off on a bicycle and was last seen wearing a black hoodie with a large Nike Air lettering. <\/p>\n
Police ask anyone who may know the suspect to give them a call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for help in identifying a man wanted for assaulting an on-duty MTA bus driver. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[211,128,4009,141,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-48818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-assault","tag-bronx","tag-morrisania","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818","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=48818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}