NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The man accused of smashing his own feces in a woman’s face at a Bronx subway station has been held on bail after he was arrested again over the weekend following earlier releases.
Frank Abrokwa, 37, was held at Rikers Island overnight Monday, according to multiple reports Tuesday.
Abrokwa had been released in the Feb. 21 feces attack as well as in an alleged hate crime in Brooklyn last September.
But a Manhattan Criminal Court judge granted prosecutors' request to set his bail at $5,000 on Monday following yet another incident in which he allegedly smashed a window at a Harlem storage facility and threatened a worker there.
Abrokwa used a dumbbell to smash a window at the Treasure Island Storage Facility around 6:30 p.m. Friday, the New York Post reported, citing a criminal complaint.
He then allegedly returned to the storage center around 3:30 p.m. Saturday and told a worker something like, “If I don’t get my refund by Monday, I’m gonna come back here and catch a felony,” according to the complaint.
The judge also ordered a psychiatric evaluation for Abrokwa.
Abrokwa had been out on supervised release following the alleged Bronx feces attack and Brooklyn hate crime, as well as two other reported attacks in the transit system on Feb. 5 and Jan. 7.
In the feces attack, police said Abrokwa smeared his own excrement on a 43-year-old woman at the Wakefield–241st Street station in the Wakefield section on Feb. 21. He was charged with forcible touching, menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment in that case.
He also faces harassment and menacing hate crime charges in a Sept. 9 attack in Crown Heights in which he allegedly spat on and threatened to kill a 46-year-old Jewish man.
Abrokwa has reportedly been arrested more than 20 times since 1999.
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