The Brooklyn woman who created panic onboard a crowded train when her worms and crickets were sent flying was arrested Tuesday after video of the chaotic scene went viral.
Zaida Pugh says she is very sorry for the subway stunt that went very wrong last week on board a Brooklyn-bound D train - one that angered and frightened straphangers whose rush-hour train got stuck on the Manhattan Bridge after a rider pulled an emergency brake.
But tonight, she's facing a slew of charges over the stunt.
Saying she was wrong, the Brooklyn actress was led out in handcuffs this afternoon from the NYPD's Transit Bureau station in Coney Island. She is charged with reckless endangerment, obstruction of governmental administration, disorderly conduct and falsely reporting an incident.
This, after she admitted she had cooked up as a prank her performance on board that D train.
She apologized for it in a video posted to her Facebook page.
"I know nothing I say is going to probably ever matter," Pugh said. "And my dreams for being an actress or whatever, you know, that's going to all die a dream,"
Pugh had said she was trying to draw attention with her antics to how homeless people are treated on the subway. But police say she was wrong.
"She put people at risk," said NYPD Chief of Department Robert Boyce. "People could have had heart attacks, people could have had all kinds of issues, emotionally scarred from that."
In addition, the MTA says the incident also serves as a reminder to riders that the emergency brake that's on every subway car should never be activated if a train is between stations - that will only delay help from getting to where the emergency is.