BROOKLYN — A man who knocked a bucket of 600 bugs out of a performance artist's hands during a stunt that unleashed panic on a crowded D train on the Manhattan Bridge was arrested Friday, prosecutors said.
Jahkif Right, 20, was riding the Brooklyn-bound train with Zaida Pugh about 6 p.m. Aug. 25 when he started taunting her and then knocked a bucket of 300 crickets and 300 earthworms onto the floor in a performance Pugh hoped would raise awareness about homelessness, police said.
Pugh then started shrieking, hitting her head and urinating on the train's floor as one of the other straphangers pulled the emergency brake, halting the train mid-bridge, officials said.
Right was arrested about 7 a.m. Friday morning in East New York, an NYPD spokesman said.
He was charged with reckless endangerment, obstructing governmental administration, criminal nuisance, disorderly conduct and other charges, police said.
Right was expected to be arraigned Friday night, prosecutors said.
Pugh was arrested Tuesday on the same charges. That same day, she took to Facebook to post a tearful apology for the stunt.
"I just really had a dream and I wanted it to go far. I wanted to spread messages out there. But I didn't want it to happen like this," Pugh says in the video.
A third accomplice who filmed the incident had not been arrested as of Friday morning, police said.
