MTA board member calls for subway ban on repeat offenders

Sick of the gropers and phone swipers who repeatedly target the riding public, an MTA board member wants the agency to make sure these repeat offenders stay out the transit system. Allen Cappelli, who’s also a defense attorney, said he’ll press the Metropolitan Transportation Authority this month to create a unit — costing around $250,000 — that tracks prosecutions of suspects with hefty records of subway crimes and works with district attorneys to make subway bans part of plea deals or terms of probation. “It ought to be on the table right up front,” he said. “Are we expressing ourselves clearly, to the appropriate district attorney, about the seriousness of this person, whose occupation seems to be to go into the subway and rob people?” he added.

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