Zaida Pugh, Cricket Prankster, to Volunteer With Youth Program

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Zaida Pugh, 21, the Bronx, N.Y., woman who dropped live crickets in the New York City subway in August, told a court that she's going to be volunteering with a youth program, according to the New York Daily News.

She was charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct for selling crickets and worms on a D train on Aug. 24 while pretending to be a homeless woman. Pugh has a history of pranks.

According to the Daily News, Pugh has decided to start volunteering with a youth alternative-to-incarceration program called Young New Yorkers. She also wants to feed the homeless.

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“I'm continuing going out of my way to feed the homeless because nobody else will,” she said.

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If convicted, Pugh faces up to a year in jail. She is expected to be back in court Jan. 31.

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Read more at the New York Daily News.