#transit-crime

#transit-crime

Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly stole a wallet from an R train rider in Woodside late last month. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 30, inside the Broadway/Northern Boulevard subway station just before 3 p.m., when the 22-year-old victim dropped his wallet while passing through the turnstiles. A much older stranger stooped down, grabbed the wallet and fled on foot in an unknown direction, police said.

"I mean, I'm near Astoria. Bet," she told an investigator, according to a complaint filed in Queens Criminal Court. "I went to Broadway, and behold - there was a lay-up train there. Still on FaceTime with my homeboy, so I drove it while I was on FaceTime with him."

Transit cops apprehended fare evader Hugh Hyde at a Manhattan subway station, discovering a loaded firearm in his backpack, highlighting ongoing transit crime issues.