Cops have arrested a third teen for taking a pair of parked R trains on a dangerous joyride through Brooklyn, police said Thursday.
The 15-year-old boy was nabbed in Coney Island Thursday morning after he was identified as one of seven youths involved in the headline-grabbing Jan. 25 subway heist. Video shows the train moving “with legs dangling outside an open window,” prosecutors said.
The teen is charged with multiple counts of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass and is expected to be charged in juvenile court, officials said.
NYPD warrants cops made the arrest as cops work on identifying the four remaining suspects, who posted video of their wild ride on Instagram. Two others, a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were apprehended earlier this week.
The 15-year-old boy arrested earlier this week had a set of subway train keys on him when he was taken into custody, officials said.
The Daily News is withholding the names of the teens because they are underage.
The group allegedly broke into unoccupied trains at the 36th St. and Fourth Ave. around 10 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
Transit sources previously told the Daily News the targeted train was parked along a stretch of express track. A second train was found with broken door locks, parked on a layup track in the same area.
Instagram video shows the teens riding an R160 subway car through Brooklyn at speeds of up to 30 mph, blowing through signals and stations.
Police confirmed that at least one train’s black box was disabled from 10:20 p.m. Jan. 25 to 3:30 a.m. the next day.
The 17-year-old was caught on video leaving the conductor’s car and members of the group used a black marker pen to black out surveillance cameras, the prosecutor said.
Front page of the New York Daily News for Feb. 4, 2025: Cops bust younger suspect at Brooklyn HS; MTA hunts 4 others in “dangerous” stunt. Police charged two teen suspects Monday in the stunning Jan. 25 R train joyrides taken by six youths and blasted out in videos online.
During his arraignment on Tuesday, Brooklyn Judge Craig Walker said the 17-year-old suspect was playing “Russian roulette” with other people’s lives.
“The transit system runs the way it runs because people know where the trains are going to be. … There are track workers who work on the tracks, and they work on the tracks thinking that the track is shut down and there’s no train coming,” Walker said, adding that the older teen had been accused of doing “something similar” in Queens.
“It’s like playing Russian roulette. Eventually, your luck will run out,” he said.