Police: Man began punching one woman on an Orange Line train after exposing himself to another

Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester man on charges he began punching a woman he didn't know sitting next to him on an inbound Orange Line train yesterday afternoon - not long after he exposed himself to another woman.

Anthony Samuel, 25, was charged with assault and battery on an elderly person - the woman he punched in the head and chest was 63 - and open and gross lewdness.

Officers arrived at the Chinatown station around 1:15 p.m. to find another passenger restraining Samuel on the platform. That was after other passengers teamed up to pull Samuel off the woman in the train.

As they investigated his alleged attack and tended to the woman - eventually taken to the hospital with head and chest pain - another woman came up to them and said that Samuel had exposed himself to her at Ruggles.

Samuel is scheduled for arraignment today in Boston Municipal Court.