AUSTIN MAN gets turned away from a CapMetro bus after he tried to hit the driver, then accosts a man riding an e-bike down the sidewalk, pulls him off, grabs his backpack, and throws punches when the man chases him to get it back -- sending the victim to the hospital, five months after he punched a stranger in the head at another Austin bus stop and walked away with credit for time served. The victim in the recent attack left in an ambulance. Police found more than 5 grams of meth in John Swain's pocket. Swain told the officer that if he had really swung first, he would have knocked the man out and "taken his backpack and taken his bike." The officer wrote that he'd dealt with Swain "on many occasions." Prosecutors know him well too, but don’t prosecute him. In 2024, Swain was charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, a second-degree felony. DA José Garza's office let him plead down to misdemeanor assault. In November 2025, state troopers found meth in his tent downtown and he resisted arrest. Garza's office never filed the drug charge. County Attorney Delia Garza's office declined the resisting arrest charge. In April, he was arrested stumbling drunk and screaming obscenities at people outside the downtown library, where he was already banned. Twelve days later he was shirtless on Congress Ave, blocking traffic and confronting strangers while diners on restaurant patios called 911. That case was dismissed. In May, he walked up to a stranger sitting at a bus stop on Guadalupe, punched him in the head, and pedaled away from police on a pink bicycle. The officer knew him of course and chased him, calling him by his first name. Swain was charged only with evading. He bonded out and skipped court. When police finally brought him back, he got credit for time served.