Subway workers fight off ‘groper,’ ‘knife-wielder’
Two subway workers were attacked by assailants who broke into their cabs last week — with a female conductor sexually assaulted by a creep and a male driver slugged by a knife-wielding woman.
On Wednesday, a man identified by cops as Samir Jacques, 40, allegedly began “blowing kisses” and making “inappropriate sexual gestures” toward a female conductor, and then knocked on the door of her cab from inside the train as it approached
Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn just before 9 a.m., according to an internal MTA report.
After pulling into the station, the conductor performed her usual visual check of the platform, through the cab window.
That’s when she “felt something touching her” — and “turned around to see the same person in her cab,” according to the report.
“The male customer grabbed her and began touching her inappropriately,” the report said. “She does not know how he got in the cab, but she previously heard him messing with the locks, while banging on the window.”
The man was the only passenger in the car, and the heroic conductor “fought him off” and locked him in the train car, where police met him at the next stop, according to the report.
He was arrested on charges of forcible touching, sex abuse and criminal trespassing and is being held on $1,000 bail.
Two days later, Autumn
Massaquoi, 19, allegedly began kicking a motorman’s cab door on a 2 train as it pulled out of Wall Street station at around 8:15 p.m., according to NYPD and internal MTA records.
Police said the motorman opened the door to confront his 5-foot-6 assailant — who allegedly flashed a knife, punched him in the face and followed him into the cab, where she continued to attack.
Massaquoi allegedly fled at Clark Street station in Brooklyn Heights after the victim attempted to prevent her escape — only to be apprehended later at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, according to police.
Transit workers found the train car “soiled with blood” and fragments of the weapon lying on the ground, according to the internal report.
Massaquoi, of Yonkers, was arrested on charges of assault, harassment and menacing, but was released without bail thanks to the state’s recent bail-reform law.