Police are seeking a woman suspected of moving
a parked N train
between subway stations in Queens early Thursday morning, the Daily News has learned.
The suspect, described by police and transit sources as a black woman with red dreadlocks, broke into and moved an N train on the elevated tracks above Astoria shortly after 4 a.m., sources told The News.
An off-duty transit worker spotted the woman entering the cab of an
R-46 train car
as it sat parked in the center layup track near the Broadway station of the N train around 4:10 a.m., sources said.
The transit worked called the incident in to the MTA’s Rail Control Center. Police were notified, and a train service supervisor was dispatched to the Broadway station.
By the time the supervisor made it to the station 30 minutes later, the train had been moved — and was now sitting outside the next stop down the line, the 36th Ave. station.
Police arrived on the scene at 36th. Ave. around 7 a.m.
Transit sources told The News that there was no apparent damage to the train, and no signs of forced entry.
The incident is the latest in a string of transit trespasses. Last month, police arrested an 18-year-old woman for taking a joyride on the layup tracks of the C train in East New York, a week after the same woman allegedly
pepper-sprayed a transit worker
during a fight aboard a parked train in south Brooklyn.
Earlier this year, a group of teens broke into a pair of R trains parked along layup tracks in Brooklyn and
took them for a joyride that they broadcast on social media
.
A 15-year-old Bronx boy suspected of involvement in that break-in, plus at least eight other train trespasses, was arrested again a month later when he showed up at school with
a backpack full of MTA tools and gear
.
With Thomas Tracy
