Judge scolds teen accused of stealing Brooklyn subway train: ‘It’s like playing Russian Roulette’

A Brooklyn justice admonished an alleged teenage bid thief, telling the 17-year-old helium was playing “Russian Roulette” with different people’s lives.

The teen, who cops accidental was portion of a radical of youngsters who took a brace of R trains connected a joyride done Brooklyn much than a week ago, faced Criminal Court Judge Craig Walker Tuesday, arsenic helium was arraigned connected charges of reckless endangerment, transgression mischief and transgression trespass. The Daily News is withholding his sanction due to the fact that of his age.

Walker, who noted the teen was besides progressive successful “something similar” successful Queens, told the teen that his wild, posted-on-social-media ride had the imaginable to injure transit workers.

“The transit strategy runs the mode it runs due to the fact that radical cognize wherever the trains are going to beryllium … There are way workers who enactment connected the tracks, and they enactment connected the tracks reasoning that the way is unopen down and there’s nary bid coming,” the justice said.

“It’s similar playing Russian Roulette. Eventually, your luck volition tally out,” helium said.

The teen was 1 of 2 youngsters busted successful transportation with the Jan. 25 subway hijacking. The 2nd suspect, a 15-year-old boy, had a acceptable of bid keys erstwhile constabulary arrested him, adjunct District Attorney Natasha Grant said Tuesday.

Three thrill seekers, each clad successful achromatic and wearing masks, are seen connected video astatine the controls of an R160 subway car traveling upward of 30 mph earlier they returned the pilfered R bid to adjacent wherever they swiped it, constabulary said.

The 15-year-old fishy was released to his parents pending the filing of ceremonial charges successful Family Court.

Five different members of the joyride unit stay astatine large.

The heist kicked disconnected astir 10 p.m. Jan. 25, erstwhile the radical broke into the unoccupied trains astatine the 36th St. and Fourth Ave. halt successful Sunset Park, cops said.

Transit sources antecedently told the Daily News the teens targeted a bid parked overnight on a agelong of explicit way successful Brooklyn. A 2nd bid was recovered with breached doorway locks, parked connected a layup way successful the aforesaid area.

The teens posted video connected Instagram, showing them riding an R160 subway car done Brooklyn astatine speeds of up to 30 mph, blowing done signals and stations. The video showed the bid moving “with legs dangling extracurricular an unfastened window,” Grant said.

Police confirmed that astatine slightest 1 train’s achromatic container was disabled from 10:20 p.m. Jan. 25 to 3:30 a.m. the adjacent day.

The 17-year-old was caught connected video leaving the conductor’s car, and members of the radical utilized a achromatic marker pen to achromatic retired surveillance cameras, the authoritative said.

None of the teen’s household was contiguous for Tuesday’s tribunal proceeding, though his Brooklyn Defenders Services lawyers said they were successful interaction with his father.

Walker ordered the lad held without bail, since he’s awaiting sentencing successful a Queens Family Court case. The details of that lawsuit were not instantly disposable Tuesday. Going forward, the Brooklyn lawsuit volition beryllium handled successful Family Court, arsenic well, the justice ruled.