Last week, a homeless parolee was charged with more than a dozen pre-arrested for attempted murder in an unprovoked metal knuckle knife attack against Strafan Ganga in the Bronx, officers said.
Lateef Green, 50, was arrested within 12 hours of being said to have repeatedly thrust a blade into the arm and stomach of the 21-year-old victim on a train southbound at 219th Avenue Station in Orinville around 7am Friday, police said.
The violence unfolded as Green walked between the cars on the second southbound train, according to officers and sources.
The unsuspecting victim was rushed to Jacobian Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
According to criminal charges, he needed multiple stitches to treat the wound.
Green was also charged with attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, and was detained on $300,000 cash bail or $900,000 bonds during his arrest on Saturday, prosecutors said.
Green – the latest address is listed as a shelter for the homeless about a mile from the station where the stab wounds were made – has had 13 prior arrests, officers said.
He served just under four years behind the bar in connection with a hate fuel attack that broke another man’s nose in Manhattan in March 2016, according to the state’s amended records and criminal charges.
According to court documents, Greene saw “too many f-ts in this town, too many f-ts in this town” in that wide sunlight case and kicked him with the head and body of West 124th Avenue in Harlem.
When officers tried to arrest Green, he refused to place his hand behind his back and, according to the appeal, he flipped his arm over.
He was charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime and resisted arrest.
Green was convicted of that violent crime in 2017 and sentenced to three to six years in prison, according to the Manhattan DA office.
He was locked up in a correctional facility in the Middle State of Mercy, New York from May of that year until January 2021 when he was released on parole, records show.
Records show that his post-release director is set to expire in October 2026.
A spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision told the Post that parole staff reviewed the photos submitted by officers and helped Greene connect the metro stab wounds.
After Green was arrested and charged, the state corrections officer issued a warrant and Green was ordered after Saturday’s hearing, a spokesman said.
He remained in custody prior to the scheduled preliminary hearing on Tuesday and a final appearance on April 29th, determining whether his parole would be revoked.
He is currently being held at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island and is scheduled to appear in court in connection with Thursday’s stabbing arrest.
His legal aid lawyer, Susan Wright, did not immediately return a call for comment from the post.
Green’s recent arrest allegedly jumped a turnstyle at Brooklyn Station in February, authorities said.
