On Wednesday, the man arrested for smearing feces on a woman in an NYC subway was released without bail.
According to a criminal complaint, this isn’t the first time Frank Abrokwa was brought upon a judge on charges.
Last year, he was brought in on charges of spitting on a Jewish man and chasing him down a Brooklyn street, screaming, “Come here, you f—king Jew, I am going to kill you.”
Abrokwa is being charged with second-degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime, disorderly conduct, and two menacing charges, one of which is a hate crime, for allegedly rubbing his feces in a woman’s face in the Bronx last week.
According to prosecutors, no bond could be set on any of the accusations, including the top felony count of aggravated harassment, because of the state’s new bail reform regulations, eliminating the cash option for many charges.
According to a representative for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Abrokwa, 37, was placed on supervised release.
Despite prosecutors’ request that he be held on a $15,000 bond or $5,000 cash, he was released Tuesday night because the charges were not bail-eligible.
On Feb. 21, the video showed Abrowka allegedly slapping a bag packed with his feces in the face of a 43-year-old woman after she reportedly rejected him.
“Instead of taking the lack of engagement in stride, the defendant responded with violence,” Bronx prosecutors said. “He walked into a nearby idling subway car and defecated in a bag.”
Abrowka, according to sources, has nearly two dozen unsealed arrest warrants dating back to 1999, including assault charges in January and February.
