Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Friday, May 17, that a Bronx man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree assault in the vicious beating of an MTA employee at a Bronx subway station.
“Without provocation, the defendant punched and kicked a 75-year-old MTA employee who was in uniform on his way to work,” Clark said. “We will not stand for assaults on transit workers, the backbone of our subway system.”
The district attorney said the defendant, Anthony Williams, 31, of Bronx Boulevard, the Bronx, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison and five years post release supervision for second-degree assault by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio…