Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:51 pm
"A transgender career criminal who allegedly pepper-sprayed seven people near Manhattan subway stations in an apparent anti-white bias attack is in police custody, authorities said Sunday.
Seven people sprayed with 'pepper spray' in possible hate crime
Thomas Heard, whom a high-ranking police source said identifies as a woman, first sprayed a 29-year-old man in Harlem on the southbound side of the 125th Street station on the A/C/B/D lines around noon Friday and ran, cops said.
As Heard headed west on 125th Street, she sprayed five more people - a 47-year-old man, and four women, ages 48, 38, 30 and 23, police said.
Then, about an hour later, she sprayed a 30-year-old woman on the southbound platform at the 96th Street 1 train station, police said.
Throughout her alleged spree, Heard, 37, made anti-white statements, cops said.
Later in the day, Heard also pepper-sprayed and kicked a 55-year-old man on East 187th Street in The Bronx, police said Sunday.
Heard was busted Saturday afternoon near that street's intersection with Crotona Avenue for kicking and threatening a woman with a sharp object, and pepper-spraying her boyfriend, police said.
She had pepper spray and a pair of scissors on her when she was nabbed, cops said.
Heard - who has been arrested 65 times since Jan. 2002 for charges including prostitution, assault on police, grand larceny and fraud - was awaiting arraignment Sunday morning on a slew of charges, including assault, menacing and harassment as a hate crime."
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