Crazy naked guy attacking people & doing acrobatics at SF BART station (NSFW)

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BART’s naked acrobat facing possible deportation

The acrobat and circus performer who accosted several BART passengers while naked at a San Francisco station last month is facing possible deportation, officials said.

Yeiner Perez, 24, was arrested May 10 at the 16th Street Mission station after a incident in which he did handstands, flips and the splits on station turnstiles. He also lunged at and grabbed several passengers, as shown in a video recorded by a station agent.

The San Francisco District Attorney’s office is still weighing whether to charge Perez, but his arrest alerted federal immigration authorities to his presence and set in motion deportation proceedings.

Perez is from Colombia, said Slim Chance, the leader of a Berkeley circus troupe that Perez used to perform with. Immigration officials said he is not a U.S. citizen and is in the country illegally on an expired visa.

After Perez was arrested, he stayed overnight at California Pacific Medical Center on an emergency psychiatric hold, then was passed into BART police custody. He was in jail for 48 hours but was released because BART investigators had not yet put together the paperwork needed for the district attorney to review the case for potential charges, said BART Deputy Police Chief Ben Fairow.

Perez was then taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which scans local arrest records for suspected immigration violators. He was released that day with a GPS anklet and required to check in regularly by phone and in person while his deportation case proceeds.


Yeiner Perez (Courtesy BART Police)

In the meantime, Perez has been seeing a therapist who agreed to treat him for free, said Chance, who believes Perez should also seek medical help. Troupe members suspect he had a stroke-like episode last year, which temporarily caused part of his face to be paralyzed. And Chance was struck by a similar appearance in Perez’s mug shot.

“Personally, I think he needs more of an organic doctor,” Chance said. “The picture in the paper — he’s got that same look he had with the palsy. His face isn’t like that anymore. It was just like that during his episode. There’s gotta be someone, some surgeon or doctor, who can have some sort of understanding of what that can mean.”

Perez has also apparently been spotted stilt-walking in the Financial District; Chance said that is how he’s been making money. Perez could not be reached for comment.

“A trial by public without a word is pretty hard,” Chance said. “I want to see him get what he needs, not just get railroaded and thrown in prison.”

Fairow said Perez was tested for drugs and alcohol when he was in the hospital, but added he could not discuss the results.

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