A day after an assailant sliced a woman’s throat on a BART train in San Francisco, authorities arrested a suspect across the bay at Oakland’s Fruitvale Station.
BART police credited an “alert station agent” for spotting 34-year-old Jovany Portades, who was identified as a suspect based on surveillance footage from one of the agency’s 4,000-plus cameras.
According to public records and old news articles, Portades is a Vallejo resident whose lengthy rap sheet includes crimes that landed him years in prison.
BART spokesman Chris Filippi said police caught up with Portades aboard an Antioch-bound train passing through Fruitvale around 2 p.m. Sunday.
He was arrested without incident, Filippi added.
The attack happened just after 8 a.m. on Saturday, on an Antioch-bound train approaching the 24th Street-Mission stop in San Francisco, according to BART police.
The victim, a 54-year-old woman, was transported to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
