Suspect busted in Brooklyn subway station assault was freed through state’s new bail reform laws

(excerpt from Daily News)

A man arrested for trying to rape a woman in a Brooklyn train station earlier this week was in jail for almost a year before the state’s new bail reform laws allowed him to go free and allegedly commit more crimes, the Daily News has learned.

Arjun Tyler, 20, was busted late Friday on charges he beat and sexually assaulted a 31-year-old woman at the 95th St. station in Bay Ridge last week, as well as for several thefts he allegedly committed in recent days.

But an NYPD source said Tyler wasn’t charged with sexual assault at his arraignment late Sunday because prosecutors wanted to first interview the victim, who couldn’t be located. Police, however, remain convinced Tyler is the attacker, the source said. An officer who had previously arrested him identified him from the wanted poster, and he was also ID’d on a security video.

“The attempted rape is still under investigation,” a spokesman for the district attorney said.