Third boy busted for taking stolen Brooklyn R subway train on joyride

Cops person arrested a 3rd teen for taking a brace of parked R trains connected a unsafe joyride done Brooklyn, constabulary said Thursday.

The 15-year-old lad was nabbed successful Coney Island Thursday greeting aft helium was identified arsenic 1 of 7 youths progressive successful the headline-grabbing Jan. 25 subway heist. Video shows the bid moving “with legs dangling extracurricular an unfastened window,” prosecutors said.

The teen is charged with aggregate counts of reckless endangerment, transgression mischief and transgression trespass and is expected to beryllium charged successful juvenile court, officials said.

NYPD warrants cops made the apprehension arsenic cops enactment connected identifying the 4 remaining suspects, who posted video of their chaotic thrust on Instagram. Two others, a 15-year-old lad and a 17-year-old lad were apprehended earlier this week.

The 15-year-old lad arrested earlier this week had a acceptable of subway bid keys connected him erstwhile helium was taken into custody, officials said.

The Daily News is withholding the names of the teens due to the fact that they are underage.

The radical allegedly broke into unoccupied trains astatine the 36th St. and Fourth Ave. astir 10 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

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

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

Instagram video shows the teens riding an R160 subway car done Brooklyn astatine speeds of up to 30 mph, blowing done signals and stations.

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.

Feb. 4, 2025: Train thieves were 15, 17

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Front leafage of the New York Daily News for Feb. 4, 2025: Cops bust younger fishy astatine Brooklyn HS; MTA hunts 4 others successful “dangerous” stunt. Police charged 2 teen suspects Monday successful the stunning Jan. 25 R bid joyrides taken by six youths and blasted retired successful videos online.

During his arraignment connected Tuesday, Brooklyn Judge Craig Walker said the 17-year-old fishy was playing “Russian roulette” with different people’s lives.

“The transit strategy runs the mode it runs due to the fact that radical cognize wherever the trains are going to be. … 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,” Walker said, adding that the older teen had been accused of doing “something similar” successful Queens.

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