A career criminal accused of brutally beating a New York City subway cleaner last year has been found mentally unfit to stand trial.
Alexander Wright, 49, was charged with viciously assaulting MTA employee Anthony Nelson, 35, after he stopped the suspect from harassing straphangers in the Pelham Bay Park train station on Aug. 11.
The beating left Nelson hospitalized with a broken collarbone and dislocated nose.
On Thursday, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Connie Morales ruled that Wright will not stand trial on assault charges due to his mental state.
“Two court-appointed doctors examined the defendant and found him unfit to proceed to trial,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement. “Justice Morales remanded the defendant to a psychiatric facility until he is deemed fit to stand trial.”
Wright’s assault of the subway worker was the latest notch in his lengthy rap sheet.
He has been arrested a whopping 41 times in the past, including for an anti-Asian hate crime that cemented him as the revolving-door-justice poster boy.
In June 2021, Wright was busted for allegedly slugging a 55-year-old Asian woman in Lower Manhattan in a caught-on-video attack.
A month earlier, he was accused of tossing scalding coffee on two traffic agents in Manhattan.
After pummeling the Asian woman, Wright was held at Bellevue Hospital for a psych evaluation, however it was not clear when or why he was freed after that incident or the coffee attack.
Wright, who lived in a homeless shelter on Wards Island and goes by the nickname “Disney,” had been arrested for a slew of other alleged crimes, including other assaults, disorderly conduct, petty theft and criminal possession…
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