NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A homeless man living in a Manhattan subway tunnel was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police earlier this month after he swung a wire at them, NYPD Transit chief Jason Wilcox said Monday.
During an MTA meeting, Wilcox said at approximately 10 a.m. on March 18, transit officers took a train into a tunnel near the Delancey-Essex station on the Lower East Side and discovered the man who “had built sort of a small structure in the cutout.”
“We deployed the train, we all stepped out and he started swinging a wire at the officers as they responded,” Wilcox said. “They had to use mace to stop that.”
The man was identified by a police spokeswoman as 45-year-old Anthony Sanchez.
Sanchez was charged with menacing and criminal trespass, the spokeswoman said.
The incident was part of an operation put in place by Mayor Eric Adams to remove homeless people encamped in subway tunnels, Wilcox said.
“We’re encountering homeless individuals who are deep in the tunnels, deep in the cutouts,” Wilcox said.
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