The 15-year-old boy was collared whereas coming into the conductor’s cab of a No. 2 prepare on the Prospect Ave. station in Longwood round 4:45 a.m., an MTA spokesperson mentioned.
Kemper mentioned the teenager had been beforehand arrested for his alleged involvement within the Jan. 25 joyride.
“What’s outrageous is that this perpetrator was recently arrested — and rapidly released — after taking an R train for a reckless unauthorized ride in Brooklyn,” Kemper mentioned. “We’ve improved security in transit, and the justice system needs to make sure these repeat criminals get the consequences and parental oversight they clearly require.”
In a separate incident on Sunday in East New York, a C prepare was discovered to have been moved greater than two automotive lengths whereas parked in a single day alongside a stretch of monitor previous the Euclid Ave. station. That prepare seems to have come to a halt after operating over an emergency cease at a closed swap monitor.
Sources mentioned youngsters have been suspected in every occasion.
Subways in prepare yards are usually unable to enter the final move of subway site visitors with out express authorization from the yard’s management tower. Emergency stops — a part of the subway system’s sign community — exist to maintain trains off of tracks the place they don’t belong. When a purple sign is current, a stop-arm extends up from the monitor, designed to journey a lever on the prepare, activating the emergency air-brake system.
Regardless of the stop-arms, a squad of teenagers — allegedly together with Tuesday’s scofflaw — was in a position to take a pair of R trains parked on a layup monitor in Brooklyn on a joyride final month.
Final September, two teenagers have been busted after cameras caught them swiping a subway automotive from a layup monitor in Queens, then crashing their stolen prepare into one other set of parked subway automobiles at low pace.
