A homeless man accused of striking an infant girl with a cellphone during an apparently unprovoked Manhattan attack has a lengthy criminal history that includes more than two dozen prior arrests, according to police sources.
Marc Okon, 49, was awaiting arraignment on assault and child endangerment charges after authorities said he lashed out Saturday morning near Bryant Park, hitting the child with the phone before allegedly trying to throw it at her mother in a daytime confrontation.
Police said Sunday that Okon has repeatedly been taken into NYPD custody in recent years.
Since 2018, he has been arrested 25 times on accusations that include forcible touching, public lewdness, menacing, grand larceny, criminal mischief and petit larceny, cops said.
Authorities said Okon was arrested at least three times last year, including a July 2025 public lewdness case on the Upper West Side, and had been taken into custody twice the month before.
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The latest arrest occurred Saturday after police said Okon approached a 39-year-old mother who was pushing her young daughter in a stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street.
Investigators said he suddenly threw a cellphone, striking the baby girl in the arm as she sat in the stroller, then retrieved the device and threw it toward the mother, narrowly missing her.
Okon was arrested at the scene and remained awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court as of late Sunday afternoon, police said.
The troubling attack comes after another homeless maniac slashed five people at Penn Station during a random attack, and in May, a homeless man with 22 prior arrests beat and choked another vagrant to death in the Bronx after he was woken from a nap.
