New York police have arrested a teen suspected of taking a joyride on an empty subway prepare then crashing it.
A 17-year-old woman is charged with felony mischief over the incident in Briarwood subway station in Queens, shortly after midnight on 12 September.
She and a companion are accused of getting into and working the prepare, then inflicting a “collision”.
A search continues for the second particular person. No accidents had been reported within the crash.
The New York Police Division (NYPD) has supplied few different particulars and it stays unclear how the pair gained entry to the prepare.
Nor have officers revealed how far the duo had been in a position to journey within the prepare. The BBC has contacted the NYPD and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for additional remark.
Surveillance photographs launched by police confirmed one suspect dressed absolutely in pink – together with a bathe cap – and a second particular person sporting blue.
In addition to the 2 counts of felony mischief, the arrested teenager faces a cost of reckless endangerment.
An analogous incident was reported in January at Forest Hills-71st Avenue station, additionally in Queens. Once more, no one was 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 prepare wouldn’t have been in a position to depart its yard and attain lively tracks.
