New York police have arrested a teen suspected of taking a joyride on an empty subway practice then crashing it.
A 17-year-old woman is charged with legal mischief over the incident in Briarwood subway station in Queens, shortly after midnight on 12 September.
She and a companion are accused of coming into and working the practice, 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 provided few different particulars and it stays unclear how the pair gained entry to the practice.
Nor have officers revealed how far the duo had been capable of journey within the practice. The BBC has contacted the NYPD and New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for additional remark.
Surveillance photos launched by police confirmed one suspect dressed absolutely in pink – together with a bathe cap – and a second particular person carrying blue.
In addition to the 2 counts of legal mischief, the arrested teenager faces a cost of reckless endangerment.
The same incident was reported in January at Forest Hills-71st Avenue station, additionally in Queens. Once more, no one was damage 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 practice wouldn’t have been capable of go away its yard and attain energetic tracks.