{"id":84132,"date":"2025-07-22T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84132\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:52:09","slug":"woman-who-broke-into-and-drove-a-nyc-subway-in-nypd-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84132\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who broke into and drove a NYC subway in NYPD custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gettyimages-2208514974-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES &#8211; 2025\/04\/06: A train seen arriving at a subway station in Manhattan. (Photo by Erik McGregor\/LightRocket via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8211; The teenager accused of hijacking an N train in Queens on July 17 is now in police custody following a similar incident in the Bronx, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>   Alleged subway thief in custody <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Justine Randall, 18, was apprehended today, July 22, after she allegedly trespassed into a train yard in the Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police say it was there that she was recognized as the same individual involved in a subway theft on July 17, when she reportedly drove a locked N train from the Broadway station in Astoria, Queens.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">In that incident, Randall allegedly used what police believe to be stolen MTA keys to gain access to the subway car. She then drove the train\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mta.info\/maps\/subway-line-maps\/n-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one stop southbound to the 36th Avenue station in Astoria.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">There are no reports of injuries or property damage.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Charges against Randall are still pending.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The NYPD has been searching for Randall since the first incident, circulating surveillance video. Her arrest in the Bronx came after she was caught unlawfully entering a secure MTA train yard.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police say Randall has a history of unauthorized and dangerous subway-related behavior, including subway surfing and illegally accessing other secured trains and train yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This article includes information from the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/nyc-subway\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYC Subway<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES &#8211; 2025\/04\/06: A train seen arriving at a subway station in Manhattan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6082,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,38598,12632,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-84132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-subway","18":"tag-organization","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114898872117787406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84132","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=84132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}