American Broadway theater usher is charged with attempted murder 10 months after attacking two workers at New York's MoMa museum and mocking the city's lax bail laws - before committing arson in Pennsylvania

Gary Cabana, 60, was extradited back to New York City this week from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

By Edward Era Barbacena

An on-the-run Broadway theater usher has finally been charged after being accused of stabbing two employees at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in March 2022.

Gary Cabana, 60, was extradited back to the Big Apple this week from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where cops found him sleeping at a Grayhound Bus terminal three days after he allegedly knifed the two 24-year-old museum employees.

He is now charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault for the attack. He could face life in prison if convicted of first-degree attempted murder.

Cabana has previously pleaded guilty to arson in Philadelphia, where he set his hotel room on fire when employees there denied his request to extend his stay, New York 1 reports.

After his arrest by Philadelphia police on March 15, Cabana was scheduled to undergo a mental health evaluation before he could be arraigned on arson charges. 

He was being held in custody in the meantime, and was finally extradited back to New York on Tuesday. 

Authorities say Cabana attacked the employees after his museum pass was revoked for 'disorderly conduct.' He then taunted cops online saying they would 'still be doing paperwork' while he remained on the run.

Cabana is said to have bipolar disorder. It is unclear when he finally pleaded guilty. 

Cabana allegedly broke into a frenzy on March 12, one day after his membership to the museum was revoked for two unspecified incidents involving disorderly conduct.

He told the New York Post he was trying to see Van Gogh's Starry Night that day when he 'lost it.'

Horrifying video footage from inside the museum showed him jumping on top of the reception desk, pulling out a knife and stabbing the two unidentified employees before fleeing.

Police said one the employees was a 24-year-old woman being treated for stabs to the lower back and one stab to the back of her neck.  The other was stabbed in the collar bone. 

From there, authorities have said, he fled to Philadelphia, where he checked into a Best Western under his middle and last names — but used his rewards card identifying his full name.

But when hotel staffers told him he could not extend his stay, police said, Cabana trashed his fifth-floor hotel room and set fire to the place.