In the heart of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, a nine-year-old girl fell victim to an unprovoked attack.
The assailant, identified as 30-year-old Jose Carlos Zarzuela, was captured after assaulting the girl in the busy dining area.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police Department revealed that Zarzuela, a repeat offender known for violent acts, unexpectedly punched the young girl in the face while she stood next to her mother.
The girl experienced pain and dizziness as a result of the assault, leading to her being taken to NYU Langone-Tisch Hospital for treatment. Fortunately, she is anticipated to make a complete recovery from her injuries.
Tim Minton, the Communications Director of MTA, expressed strong disapproval of the incident to amNY.
He raised concerns about Zarzuela’s recent release, as he had previously been charged with another random attack that left a victim with a broken nose.
“It doesn’t make any sense that this guy — who recently was released after being charged with randomly punching someone else and breaking that victim’s nose — should be back in a public space where he can attack others, especially children,” Minton said.
“The people responsible for the criminal justice system need to learn from this episode before more innocent people become victims.”
After attacking the girl, Zarzuela fled the scene but was eventually found and arrested later that evening.
Surveillance footage from the terminal showed Zarzuela wandering near a Shake Shack before fleeing onto the street after the assault.
Zarzuela faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault of a victim under 11, second-degree assault, third-degree assault, and attempted assault.
Sources familiar with the investigation revealed that Zarzuela has a history of eight prior arrests.
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On April 4, Zarzuela assaulted a 54-year-old woman at Grand Central Terminal, causing her to suffer a broken nose. He was originally charged with second-degree felony assault but it was downgraded to third-degree misdemeanor assault.
Initially set at $10,000, his bail was reduced to $2,500 by Judge Laurie Peterson who later ordered his release without bail.
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In that incident, MTA Police sources said, Zarzuela allegedly punched the victim in the face without provocation or warning, breaking her nose. MTA Police officers arrested him on the spot and booked him on a second-degree felony assault charge.
But that charge was downgraded to a third-degree misdemeanor assault count when Zarzuela appeared in New York County Criminal Court for arraignment later that day, according to court records. Prosecutors had requested that he remain behind bars on $10,000 bail; sources said that bail had been reduced to $2,500, which Zarzuela could not make.
However, five days later at a follow-up hearing, Judge Laurie Peterson ordered Zarzuela released from custody without bail, court records noted.
Peterson, who had ordered former Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg to serve a five-month sentence for perjury last week in connection with the former president’s civil fraud trial, gained notoriety in 2020 when she set free an individual accused of a bloody attack on a police officer amid the George Floyd protests that summer.
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A good start would be jailing Judge Peterson for a minimum 2 years and having Zarzuela in the next cell
sorry to disagree with you. Zarzuela should be in the same cell.
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Nice thought. Perhaps the Deep State will be nice for once and remove the security camera and threaten the guards to say they were sleeping on duty when the s#!t goes down!
how about no cells, just a rope.
Hey when are the voters wake up and see what is happening to their town. It is disgraceful to allow him off with no bond and back on the street to harm another and he will. The politicians do not care about your safety, non bond laws have destroyed the city. Until you New Yorkers step and said you had nothing will happen. Voter all libal progressive democrats or you will experience more and more of this. Good luck.
Another piece of human jetsam running free because the human flotsam on the NY city council and the sub human DA and judges keep letting violent repeat criminals onto the streets knowing full well the consequences of their behavior. Leftist never learn until it’s their kid who gets sucker punched in the head.
If this happened, in my presence, I would have killed this bastard! Thst is what it is going to take to stop this! I hope nyc burns to the ground! It would serve these sorry freaks who put the DCAP (demoncrap/communist/atheist party) in charge!!
amen 100%
What do you expect from this kind of rodent? How about a Louisville Slugger in the face?
As of 2023, New York State has about 32,600 people incarcerated, which is a 4% increase from the previous year. This is more than half the prison population that was at its highest in 1999, when about 73,000 people were incarcerated. The prison population has been declining, with a 26.9% drop from 2019 to 2022. However, the population increased for the first time in 15 years in 2023.
The 24 facilities that DOCCS has closed since 2011 have resulted in an annual savings of approximately $442 million, according to DOCCS.
The main argument for closing state prisons is the declining incarcerated population. DOCCS notes that the prison population has decreased by 54.9%, from 72,649 incarcerated individuals in 1999 to 32,766 as of Jan. 1.
Communist Judge Peterson should be held in place while the 9 year old girl’s daddy hits that Bit** in the face then allow the mother to punch the Communist in the face as well.
This is nolonger America as we’ve known it, so it’s a free for all who wants Justice against the Communist Judges, DA’s, Communist Prosecuter’s across this Nation.
We The People should dish out what the Communist are doing to every American Citizen.
Vigilantes and Snipers is what we need now more than ever.
We need A Charles Bronson in Death Wish now.!
.34 would rid the U.S. of repeat offenders, one at a time.
He may be Bragg’s brother. Will be released immediately.
My first question is this monster a citizen of the US? If not then deport his ugly butt out of this country!!! Next I would say the judge who allowed this monster to be released and to run free to do this again along with a reduced bond should lose her license to even practice in our country. You Judge took an oath to protect this country NOT to allow monsters to run around hurting if not killing innocent people!!! I hope you are ashamed of yourself and I also hope it keeps you up at night!!!
how come we dont see that happening in southern states??? i wonder,,,,
What? No good Samaritan with a .38 handy? Probably not. If there was, they would probably be charged instead of the criminal. That city is for criminals and their enablers – the judges and leftist adminisration.
this repeated piece of vermin should be taken out to a wall and executed. attacking random people,ridiculous. the judge should be disbarred and be er allowed to be a lawyer or judge anywhere. what would the judge do if itwS one of his family members?
NY injustice system is much too busy going after President Trump to worry about real criminals.
He looks like a real winner. Shame a man couldn’t have been around that could have knocked the living sh– out of him. He is such a coward. Ship him out of the USA. We don’t want scum in thev USA like this animal.
First – hit him hard in the face!!!
Scott Adams was right!
WHO released him each time and why? I want to know the names of the actual people who looked these pieces of amoeba shit in the eye after what they did and either released them without or reduced bail, If there is no real legitimate rational for doing so then let everyone know who it is so that when that hulk of trash walks the street they can feel the same sense of security that little girl will probably never have for years or the rest of her life. She just got punched in the face by the democrat party and they have no remorse whatsoever.
Ya’ get whatcha vote for.
Commie liberals don’t care as long as he didn’t punch their daughter.
Instead they’ll go out and vote for another Communist Democrat, and protest against Israel and for open Borders, the useless, Anti-Constitution, Anti-American Shi* eating subhuman garbage.
get ready for the magic card to appear for him, or his new religion.
Laurie Peterson
Could it be that this Female Hater will attack a female of any age or size? Where was he in the country he came from? Was it an insane asylum? Is that judge insane to release him on a lesser charge? People have been murdered via a broken nose where the nasal bones are driven into the brain. What is the matter with that judge, to condone such violence on women and children? The Perp is here illegally. Either jail, so others are not injured or DEPORT NOW.