Two teens turn themselves in after stealing subway car at Briarwood-Van Wyck Blvd. station: NYPD – QNS

Two teenagers turned themselves in to the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows, where they were arrested for stealing an unoccupied MTA subway car at the Briarwood-Van Wyck Blvd. station and taking it for a quick joyride just after midnight on Thursday, September 12.

The 17-year-old girl turned herself in shortly after noon on Wednesday and her accomplice, a 17-year-old boy, turned himself in the next morning. Both were charged with two counts of first-degree criminal damage to property and first-degree reckless endangerment.

The two teens are accused of breaking into the empty, out-of-service subway car and driving it about 50 feet before crashing into another, unoccupied subway car. No injuries were reported, but charges state the collision caused about $1,500 in damage to the subway cars. The two teens fled the scene before officers from the 107th Precinct and Transit District 20 arrived after responding to a 911 call about the incident.

They turned themselves in after their pictures were widely shared in local media. The young man boasted about his photo and told an investigator: “That’s me on the flyer,” the complaint states.

At an independent press conference Wednesday at Corona Yards, MTA interim president Demetrius Crichlow spoke about how the subway robbers were caught on video.

“There is no doubt that this was an extremely stupid and reckless act by two people who [the] “We’ve said time and time again that we have cameras. We’re aggressively installing cameras. Right now, about 70% of our fleet has cameras, and these cars are specifically equipped for that. We have great video footage that’s been given to the police, and we’re confident that they’re going to catch the people, the perpetrators in this case.”

The teens were arraigned separately as juvenile offenders in Queens Criminal Court on Thursday and ordered to appear in court on Sept. 25.