Teen subway car train thief turned in by family, busted by cops: NYPD sources

Cops person arrested the 2 teens suspected of being liable for swiping a Queens subway train and slamming it into different bid — aft 1 of the joyriders was turned successful by a household subordinate who saw NYPD surveillance images, constabulary sources said Friday.

The 2 17-year-olds, a lad and a girl, were caught connected camera swiping the bare and parked MTA bid astatine the Briarwood subway presumption off the Van Wyck Expressway adjacent Main St. connected Sept. 12. The MTA’s F and E lines tally done the Briarwood subway station.

The pair entered the bare train conscionable earlier 12:10 a.m., got into the motorman’s cabin, and someway got the bid rolling.

But their joyride lone lasted a fewer seconds: they drove the bid astir 50 feet before it struck different parked bid connected the aforesaid track.

No 1 was injured and neither bid was earnestly damaged, officials said.

It was not instantly wide however the 2 teens got the bid moving.

“It was an highly foolish and reckless enactment of 2 individuals accessing unrecorded track,” Interim Transit Authority President Demetrius Crichlow said astir the short-lived theft.

Cops released images of the teens connected Tuesday evening. The miss was dressed each successful pinkish and was wearing a pinkish ablution headdress astatine the clip of the theft.

The adjacent day, cops identified the miss and took her into custody, charging her with transgression mischief and reckless endangerment.

The adjacent day, the teenage boy’s relatives turned him into authorities. He’s facing the aforesaid charges.

Neither teen was identified due to the fact that of their age.