Hall of Fame repeat offender with some 230 arrests in trouble again with 4 busts in just a month

The serial transit offender with about 230 total arrests who cops slammed as a candidate for the subway crime “Hall of Fame” is in trouble again as he racked up four more busts over the past month before being dumped back onto the street, law enforcement sources said. Michael Wilson, 37 – who sources say committed 90 percent of his crimes in the subway system – was nabbed for the 25th time this year on Tuesday for allegedly riding between cars on a train passing through the 42nd Street-Times Square station, according to the sources. He then lied about his personal info to arresting officers, according to the sources.Wilson was also busted on May 25 for allegedly lying across multiple seats on a train car in Brooklyn, police said. On May 12, he was nabbed for allegedly smoking crack cocaine on a staircase at Riverside Drive and 104th Street on the Upper West Side, and then tossing the residue down the steps, cops and sources said. And on May 6, Wilson was charged with allegedly smoking crack on a moving train in Harlem, police said. He was released on each of the cases – which is nothing new for the serial offender, who earlier this year drew the ire of NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper.“If there was a hall of fame for Subway offenders — this guy would be a first ballot inductee,” NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper wrote in a scathing X post.“And yet, certain parts of our criminal justice system seem to think otherwise.”Kemper’s comments came after Wilson’s Feb.2 bust, when cops caught him swiping a rider through a turnstile with a MetroCard in exchange for cash, law enforcement sources said.He was ordered to leave the West 34th Street and Seventh Avenue subway station during the 10 a.m.

ordeal, but he refused, and started to flail his arms and stiffen his body in an effort to avoid arrest.Eventually officers placed Wilson under arrest.They found six MetroCards in his possession, which they bent along their magnetic strips to ren...

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