Justine Randall, 18, was arrested Monday and charged with reckless endangerment, housebreaking, trespassing and unauthorized use of a automobile for allegedly strolling onto Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway tracks and continuing to interrupt into and function a subway practice in Brooklyn at a pace of a minimum of 30 mph, in response to a felony criticism filed in Brooklyn Prison Court docket.
Police have been referred to as round 4:30 a.m. Sunday after a subway tower operator seen a practice making an unauthorized transfer on the specific observe close to the Liberty Ave. station of the C practice in East New York, in response to sources.
Sources stated the rogue subway driver took the practice two stations away earlier than returning it to the layup tracks close to Liberty Ave. By the point police arrived, the obvious joyrider was gone.
However in response to a felony criticism filed in Brooklyn Prison Court docket, surveillance footage from the practice and the station confirmed a girl on the controls of a subway practice, piloting it “at a high rate of speed exceeding 30 miles per hour.”
Randall’s alleged joyride comes simply 4 days after she was arrested on prices she pepper-sprayed an MTA transit employee within the face after being caught trespassing on a subway storage observe close to the 86th St. Station in Bay Ridge.
In that incident, an MTA supervisor checking a laid-up practice for trespassers encountered the individual cops later alleged was Randall.
After an alternate of blows and pepper-spray, the trespasser ran off by an emergency exit — however not earlier than sources stated the perp stole the supervisor’s keys.
Randall pleaded not responsible to these prices final week, and her case was adjourned to a diversionary program often known as “Problem-Solving Court.”
Attorneys with the Authorized Assist Society, who’re representing Randall in each circumstances, declined to remark.
The incidents are the newest in a spate of transit thefts.
Final month, $12,000 value of safety cameras have been stolen from a practice in Queens after a botched try at a joyride.
In January, a bunch of teenagers broke right into a pair of R trains parked alongside layup tracks in Brooklyn and took them for a spin.
A 15-year-old Bronx boy suspected of involvement in that and a minimum of eight different practice break-ins was nabbed a month later when he confirmed up in school with a backpack filled with MTA walkie-talkies, practice keys and a slew of different transit instruments and kit.
Initially Printed: June 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM EDT
