New York police have arrested a teenager suspected of taking a joyride on an empty subway educate then crashing it.
A 17-year-old woman is charged with legal mischief over the incident in Briarwood subway station in Queens, in a while after middle of the night on 12 September.
She and a spouse are accused of getting into and working the educate, then inflicting a “collision”.
A seek continues for the second one particular person. No accidents have been reported within the crash.
The New York Police Division (NYPD) has introduced few different main points and it stays unclear how the pair won get entry to to the educate.
Nor have officials printed how some distance the duo have been ready to go back and forth within the educate. The BBC has contacted the NYPD and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for additional remark.
Surveillance photographs launched through police confirmed one suspect dressed totally in red – together with a bath cap – and a 2d particular person dressed in blue.
In addition to the 2 counts of legal mischief, the arrested teen faces a fee of reckless endangerment.
A identical incident was once reported in January at Woodland Hills-71st Road station, additionally in Queens. Once more, no one was once harm and no injury reported.
On the time, officers speculated that the joyriders used a stolen key.
They moved to reassure the general public that the educate do not need been ready to depart its backyard and achieve energetic tracks.
