A serial teenage subway thief is in the wind after she failed to show up for a hearing in Brooklyn Supreme Court Tuesday, just days after she was arraigned on separate reckless endangerment charges for allegedly stealing an R train in May.
Justine Randall-Pizarro, 18, was slated to appear in court to face indictment in a slew of pending transit cases — including one involving an alleged knockdown, drag-out, pepper-spraying fight with an MTA supervisor on May 26.
But she was a no-show.
That led Justice Archana Rao to order a bench warrant for her arrest.
“I do not currently know where Ms. Randall is. I did speak with her earlier today, however. I don’t believe she’s coming to court,” Randall-Pizarro’s public defender lawyer, Margaret Olsen of the Legal Aid Society, told the judge. The lawyer used a simplified version of the defendant’s name that appears on some court filings.
Just two days earlier, Randall-Pizarro — whom cops have called a “transit recidivist” with more than a dozen arrests so far this year — had appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court to face charges of reckless endangerment, burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle for May’s R train caper. She was released without bail that day.
Prosecutors said the teen took the R train for a joyride, telling investigators she’s “done it too many times” to remember all the details of the jaunt.
And when a pal along for the ride asked her, “What if we hit somebody?” she responded, “Oh, well,” according to a criminal complaint.
Randall-Pizarro was picked up over the weekend for her suspected involvement in the Bay Ridge caper, in which she and two others allegedly broke into a train parked on a “pocket track” storage area beneath southern Brooklyn.
Randall-Pizarro and an unnamed accomplice boarded the train just south of the 86th St. station, where it had been parked overnight, before throwing the R160 train car into reverse and speeding 20 mph toward the Bay Ridge-95th St. station and the main-line R train tracks.
FILE – An R160 subway train. (Craig Warga / New York Daily News)
Prosecutors said a video from inside the control cab shows the rate of speed, and captures two young people at the helm of the train discussing its operations.
In the video, a copy of which was reviewed by the Daily News, a transmission can be heard over the train’s radio alerting transit workers to “some kids on the layup train.”
The person at the controls — who prosecutors allege is Randall-Pizarro — then says, “And now we’re reversing,” before beginning to back the train up.
A voice off-camera shouts, “What if we hit somebody?”
“Oh, well,” the first person responds.
“What the f— you mean, ‘Oh, well?’” the accomplice replies.
Transit sources told The News that Randall-Pizarro backed the train up until passing through a red signal that tripped the train’s emergency brakes.
According to the criminal complaint, the teen told cops over the weekend that, “The signal stopped the train automatically.”
“I remember driving the train back and forth that day,” Randall-Pizarro said, but couldn’t remember exactly when because, “I’ve done it too many times.”
Randall-Pizarro and an unnamed accomplice boarded the train just south of the 86th St. subway station in Brooklyn, where it had been parked overnight, before throwing the R160 train car into reverse and speeding 20 mph toward the Bay Ridge-95th St. station and the main-line R train tracks. (Gary He for New York Daily News)
In addition to her alleged reverse R train ride and the fight with a subway supervisor, Randall-Pizarro stands accused of swiping a parked C train in East New York in June and getting it up to 30 mph along the express tracks near the Liberty Ave. station.
The teen also is accused of piloting a 350-ton N train for a half mile above Astoria last month — all while video-chatting with a friend on FaceTime.
Originally Published: August 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM EDT