STATEN ISLAND — A man who punched a bus driver in the face earlier this year was arrested again after he sent naked pictures of himself to children, according to his criminal complaint.
Blaise Caroleo, 51, of Travis, was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI after agents found he sent naked pictures with several minors and kept child pornography videos on his cellphone, the New York Daily News first reported.
After Caroleo was arrested in February for punching a bus driver in the face in Manhattan, agents executed two search warrants on his seized phone, according to his criminal complaint.
They found Caroleo chatted with girls between 12 to 15 years old using Kik messenger on his phone, asked the minors to film themselves in sexually explicit acts and sent naked photos of himself, authorities said.
The victims lived in Michigan, Minnesota and other states, according to the complaint.
Aside from the chats, Caroleo also had several pornographic pictures and videos of girls between 7 and 10 years old.
FBI agents executed a search warrant on Wednesday on Caroleo's Staten Island home and found two other cellphones with other explicit chats with minors, according to the criminal complaint.
His bail was set at $150,000 for his latest arrest, according to court records.
Caroleo's lawyer, Michael Brown, did not want to comment on the case.
On Feb. 24, Caroleo reportedly called a QM11 bus driver a "monkey," tossed coffee on him, threw him to the ground and punched him in the head after Caroleo boarded at a drop-off only stop and wouldn't get off, the Daily News reported.
