Man Sentenced For Mercury On Subway

A man who was caught on a subway surveillance video spilling mercury on a downtown station platform was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to stay away from the area’s mass transit facilities.

Armando Bustamante Miranda, 27, pleaded no contest Wednesday to releasing an offensive or harmful substance in a public area, said Patty Bilgin, supervisor of the City Attorney’s Environmental Justice and Protection Section.

In addition to the nearly three-month jail term, he was ordered to serve three years probation, she said.

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