Subway 'Hall of Fame' offender with about 230 arrests racked up 4 of the busts over past month: sources
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The serial transit offender, who has approximately 230 total arrests, has been dubbed a potential member of the subway crime “Hall of Fame” by cops. He has recently accumulated four additional arrests in the last month, according to sources in law enforcement. Despite this latest bout of trouble, he has once again been released back onto the streets.

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 render them unusable. He also had a student MetroCard.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office ultimately let him off without prosecution “in the interest of justice,” according to sources.

Kemper took exception to the DA’s rationale, referencing it verbatim in his X post.

“Justice for whom? Recidivist criminals or law abiding NYers who simply want to travel on the subways free of harassment or open acts of lawlessness?” Kemper said.

A spokesperson for Bragg said at the time that his office continues to “hold accountable those who jeopardize the safety of other passengers and transit workers in our subways.

“Last year’s decrease in transit crime throughout the borough was the result of close collaboration with our law enforcement partners, and we are continuing that work every day,” the spokesperson said.

Before that bust, Wilson was arrested on two criminal tampering charges on Jan. 17, and seven others on Jan. 13, according to the sources. 

On Jan. 3, he was arrested and slapped with 11 charges – 10 for criminal tampering and one for theft of service, the sources said.

The career criminal – whose first arrest was back in 2004 – was arrested 232 times over the years, but dozens of those cases have been sealed, bringing the unsealed total to 170, according to the sources. 

A whopping 135 of his arrests have been on felony charges, but he’s only been convicted of felonies four times, with one of them a violent felony, according to the sources. His parole was also revoked several times, the sources said.

He has also racked up 53 misdemeanor convictions, the sources said. 

Wilson had also been issued more than 30 bench warrants to failure to appear in court, according to the sources.

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