The 15-year-old boy was collared whereas coming into the conductor’s cab of a No. 2 practice on the Prospect Ave. station in Longwood round 4:45 a.m., an MTA spokesperson mentioned.
Kemper mentioned the teenager had been beforehand arrested for his alleged involvement within the Jan. 25 joyride.
“What’s outrageous is that this perpetrator was recently arrested — and rapidly released — after taking an R train for a reckless unauthorized ride in Brooklyn,” Kemper mentioned. “We’ve improved security in transit, and the justice system needs to make sure these repeat criminals get the consequences and parental oversight they clearly require.”
In a separate incident on Sunday in East New York, a C practice was discovered to have been moved greater than two automobile lengths whereas parked in a single day alongside a stretch of monitor previous the Euclid Ave. station. That practice seems to have come to a halt after working over an emergency cease at a closed change monitor.
Sources mentioned youngsters have been suspected in every occasion.
Subways in practice yards are typically unable to enter the overall move of subway visitors with out specific authorization from the yard’s management tower. Emergency stops — a part of the subway system’s sign community — exist to maintain trains off of tracks the place they don’t belong. When a pink sign is current, a stop-arm extends up from the monitor, designed to journey a lever on the practice, activating the emergency air-brake system.
Regardless of the stop-arms, a squad of teenagers — allegedly together with Tuesday’s scofflaw — was in a position to take a pair of R trains parked on a layup monitor in Brooklyn on a joyride final month.
Final September, two teenagers have been busted after cameras caught them swiping a subway automobile from a layup monitor in Queens, then crashing their stolen practice into one other set of parked subway automobiles at low velocity.
Initially Revealed: February 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM EST
