Police arrested a Bronx man Thursday for slashing an MTA conductor during a brazen attack in Foxhurst earlier this week, cops said.
Isiah Thompson, 29, faces seven counts of assault, menacing and weapons possession in connection with the attack.
Police said Thompson was identified from a wanted poster and taken into custody by the NYPD Warrants Squad Thursday morning.
Cops say Thompson approached a 36-year-old No. 6 subway conductor while she was making announcements aboard a train at the Whitlock Ave. station Tuesday afternoon.
According to police, the man asked, “Who the f— are you to tell me what to do?” before slashing the transit worker’s face.
John Chiarello, president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, said the conductor — who has been on the job less than two years — was cut just below her left eye.
Security cameras at the station captured an image of the assailant wearing a black coat, khaki pants and a backpack.
“I take this personally,” NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow — himself a former transit worker — said Wednesday while holding up an NYPD wanted poster. “It is a cowardly act to attack one of our employees.”
“We have cameras in all of our cars,” Crichlow said. “We have cameras in all of our stations.”
Chiarello, the union president, welcomed the news on Thursday.
“I’m thankful to the NYPD for apprehending [a suspect] quickly,” he said.
Asked how the injured conductor was doing, the union boss said, “She’s in good spirits, amazingly.”
Thompson was expected to be arraigned Thursday afternoon.
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