Two teens busted for taking Brooklyn R subway trains on joyride

Two teens were arrested Monday for taking a brace of R trains for a chaotic joyride done Brooklyn aft tampering with the power booth’s achromatic box, constabulary said.

One of the boys, conscionable 15, was taken into custody astatine his Brooklyn precocious schoolhouse and slapped with charges of reckless endangerment, possession of burglary tools, transgression mischief, and transgression trespass.

The 2nd boy, 17, faces charges of reckless endangerment, transgression mischief, and transgression trespass. Their names were not released due to the fact that they are underage. Four suspects are inactive being sought by cops.

The joyride kicked disconnected astir 10 p.m. Jan. 25, erstwhile the teens broke into 1 of 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 proudly posted video of their escapade connected Instagram, showing them 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 Daily News beforehand leafage for Jan. 28, 2025.

The arrests travel days aft the national that represents much than 40,000 subway and autobus workers announced it would match the NYPD’s $3,500 reward for immoderate accusation that could pb to the apprehension of the men.

In effect to the bid heists, the New York City Transit Authority connected Monday announced plans to adhd alarms and brighter lights to bid controls to pass erstwhile a bid is moved without permission. They’re besides creating a strategy with portable stops that volition automatically trigger exigency brakes erstwhile a bid passes implicit them.

The  bureau is besides looking into utilizing biometric scans successful the aboriginal and is researching ways to amended power who tin entree and run trains.

“Breaking into and moving subway cars is dangerous, illegal, and volition not beryllium tolerated,” NYC Transit caput Demetrius Crichlow said successful a statement. “We convey the NYPD for capturing these perpetrators who not lone enactment their ain lives astatine hazard but besides riders and transit workers.”

Cops past week released surveillance footage of the enactment trespassers taken from wrong 1 of the bid cars and asked the public’s assistance identifying them and tracking them down.