{"id":122915,"date":"2025-08-06T06:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122915\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:29:22","slug":"serial-nyc-subway-thief-nabbed-yet-again-only-to-blow-off-court-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122915\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial NYC subway thief nabbed yet again, only to blow off court hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n

Justine Randall-Pizarro, 18, was slated to appear in court to face indictment in a slew of pending transit cases \u2014 including one involving an alleged knockdown, drag-out, pepper-spraying fight<\/a> with an MTA supervisor on May 26.<\/p>\n

But she was a no-show.<\/p>\n

That led Justice Archana Rao to order a bench warrant for her arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not currently know where Ms. Randall is. I did speak with her earlier today, however. I don\u2019t believe she\u2019s coming to court,\u201d Randall-Pizarro\u2019s public defender lawyer, Margaret Olsen of the Legal Aid Society, told the judge. The lawyer used a simplified version of the defendant\u2019s name that appears on some court filings.<\/p>\n

Just two days earlier, Randall-Pizarro \u2014 whom cops have called a \u201ctransit recidivist\u201d<\/a> with more than a dozen arrests so far this year \u2014 had appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court to face charges of reckless endangerment, burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle for May\u2019s R train caper. She was released without bail that day.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the teen took the R train for a joyride, telling investigators she\u2019s \u201cdone it too many times\u201d to remember all the details of the jaunt.<\/p>\n

And when a pal along for the ride asked her, \u201cWhat if we hit somebody?\u201d she responded, \u201cOh, well,\u201d according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cpocket track\u201d storage area beneath southern Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"FILEFILE – An R160 subway train. (Craig Warga \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In the video, a copy of which was reviewed by the Daily News, a transmission can be heard over the train\u2019s radio alerting transit workers to \u201csome kids on the layup train.\u201d<\/p>\n

The person at the controls \u2014 who prosecutors allege is Randall-Pizarro \u2014 then says, \u201cAnd now we\u2019re reversing,\u201d before beginning to back the train up.<\/p>\n

A voice off-camera shouts, \u201cWhat if we hit somebody?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, well,\u201d the first person responds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the f\u2014 you mean, \u2018Oh, well?’\u201d the accomplice replies.<\/p>\n

Transit sources told The News that Randall-Pizarro backed the train up until passing through a red signal that tripped the train\u2019s emergency brakes.<\/p>\n

According to the criminal complaint, the teen told cops over the weekend that, \u201cThe signal stopped the train automatically.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember driving the train back and forth that day,\u201d Randall-Pizarro said, but couldn\u2019t remember exactly when because, \u201cI\u2019ve done it too many times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Randall-PizarroRandall-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)<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The teen also is accused of piloting a 350-ton N train<\/a> for a half mile above Astoria last month \u2014 all while video-chatting with a friend on FaceTime.<\/p>\n

Originally Published: August 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serial teenage subway thief is in the wind after she failed to show up for a hearing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-122915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-transportation","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114980412811196961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}