An off-duty New York City employee was arrested Monday afternoon, according to the NYPD. Maurice Russell, 34, was taken into custody around 3:45 p.m. Russell is an employee of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation,
The NYPD is seeking six people who commandeered and vandalized a subway train in Queens, breaking windows and obscuring cameras. They recorded the incident themselves.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced the arrest of 10 individuals alleged to be members and associates of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang, a transnational criminal organization involved in trafficking firearms into New York City.
Authorities say the six people got inside the train before briefly operating it and then vandalizing some of the glass panels on the train's camera before running off.
The reckless perps are accused of stealing the unoccupied R train from a storage yard at the Forest Hills-71 Av subway station in Queens just before 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, cops said.
NYC firefighters encountered a frozen hydrant, as well as multiple e-bikes and lithium-ion batteries, following a Friday morning fire in the Flushing section of Queens, the FDNY said.
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