New York Daily News

Cops: We’ve got the slug in slugging

- BY CLAYTON GUSE, ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA AND LIZ KEOGH

A man arrested for slugging a subway conductor last month is a sucker-punch specialist who clocked a passenger on the train more than two years ago, police said Thursday.

Suspect Rayvon Jones, 34, is now banned from the F train, and the Coney Island/ Stillwell station is off limits. That’s where cops said Jones punched a subway conductor in the face for no reason as she was exiting the train cab.

Jones, who lives blocks away from the station, was picked up from Rikers Island, where he was being held for violating an order of protection. Cops said he has a dozen previous arrests, including one in 2017 for allegedly assaulting a nursing attendant at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn.

In the latest attack on May 6, the MTA employee was exiting her train when she was blindsided.

Police identified Jones after Transport Workers Union Local 100 aggressive­ly distribute­d “wanted” flyers with an image of the suspect.

Sandra, the train operator who was punched, has declined to share her last name. She called for the NYPD to put more cops on the subway after the attack that left her with a concussion, bruising and a laceration to her left eye and face.

“This is good news,” said Local 100 President Tony Utano. “Transit workers and riders can rest easier knowing that an arrest has been made in this brutal attack on a transit worker who was just doing her job.

Jones was charged with assault, menacing and harassment, and held on $10,000 bail.

He also was arrested for assaulting a cop, possession of stolen property and harassing an ex-girlfriend, for which he was taken to jail on May 24, which was his 34th birthday.

Jones was busted more than two years ago after he allegedly slugged an Orthodox Jewish woman on the subway so hard that he broke her glasses.

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