Suspected Laughing Conductor Attackers Nabbed
Brutal attack no laughing matter.
By CAROLYN FREER and LEANNE GENDREAU
Updated 12:12 PM EST, Wed, Dec 2, 2009
For the last two weeks, MTA police have been searching for the three giggling women who beat a Metro-North conductor on a train in Stamford last month.
Well now, the transportation authority thinks they have found their women.
They arrested three teenagers who are accused of breaking the 61-year-old train conductor’s fingers and leaving him with a cut above the right eye on Nov. 16.
Police arrested Jaria Hargrove, 18, of Stamford, Shaquana Minott, 18, of Bridgeport, and a 17-year-old Stamford woman, who has not been identified because of her age.
They boarded the Bridgeport-bound train at the South Norwalk Train Station at 3:50 p.m., police said.
As the train pulled into the South Norwalk stop, the conductor asked the women for their tickets. But when he noticed those tickets were forged, they attacked him and jumped off the train, police said.
As if girls beating a 61-year-old man was not enough to make you angry, the surveillance cameras captured the suspects giggling moments after the beating took place. Two women, locked arm-and-arms were also laughing as they walk down the platform, officials said.
Hargrove charged with one count of forgery of symbols of value and sixth-degree larceny. She was released after posting a $2,500 bond and is due in Norwalk Court on Dec. 15.
Minott was charged with one count of assault on a public transit employee, C-felony, released after posting $50,000 bond to is due in Norwalk Court on Dec. 15.
The 17-year-old was charged with one count of assault on a public transit employee, C-felony and held for arraignment on Wednesday morning in Norwalk Court because she could not make a bond of $50,000.
First Published: Nov 20, 2009 1:53 PM EST
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